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- adjective mathematics Of a
real number , eitherpositive orzero ; notnegative ; greater than or equal to zero. - adjective mathematics Of a
real valued function ,functional , etc. which has non-negative values over a particulardomain D.
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Examples
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At Raytown South, technicians collected a total of two positive, or what the district calls "non-negative," results indicating drug use.
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In a non-negative way Newt also says Ron Paul has a record of "systemic avoidance of reality".
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Ted Casablanca does a tongue-in-cheek retrospective of the 2008 film year and mentions Twilight.bnd. com Twilight gets a mention as a top "chick flick" from someone who actually uses the term in a non-negative way.
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What emotional benefit arises is incidental and unnecessary so as long as it is non-negative and promotes its avoidance (survival) of negativity in the future.
End the Expectation of Happiness | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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Since the net savings rate has to be below 100% (simply because depreciation is non-negative), we can see that as an accounting identity, the rate of return on capital has to be bigger than the rate of growth of GDP.
Social Security Privatization Debated, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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AThis plays into WND's anti-gay agenda in which any non-negative reference to homosexuality is is equal to "indoctrination" -- an agenda MassResistance shares.
Terry Krepel: WorldNetDaily Teams Up With Hate Group to Bash Kevin Jennings 2010
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Again, this does not make the sentence ungrammatical, but it does make it harder to comprehend (at least for me — I actually had to stop and think for a second when I got the non-negative verb phrase).
Yanni illustrates an important point about grammar « Motivated Grammar 2008
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But it's revealing that people make every non-negative Hillary post into a reason to trash Greg and Eric.
Poll: More Dems Think Hillary Is Running The Most Positive Campaign 2009
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I have trouble understanding how anyone has any non-negative opinion of him ...
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It is kind of sweet justice that all his pandering to the base during the primaries (as evidenced by that clip) left him open to such a clear and non-negative attack.
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