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Science and mathematics
- Negative number
- Negative mass
- Negative energy
- Electrical polarity
- Negative result (disambiguation)
- Negative lenses, uses to describe diverging optics
Photography
- Negative (photography), an image with inverted luminance or a strip of film with such an image
- Original camera negative, the film in a motion picture camera which captures the original image
- Paper negative, a negative image printed on paper used to create the final print of a photograph
Linguistics
- A negative answer, commonly expressed with the word no
- A type of grammatical construction; see affirmative and negative
- A double negative is a construction occurring when two forms of grammatical negation are used in the same sentence.
Music
- Negative (Finnish band), a Finnish band established in 1997
- Negative (Serbian band), a Serbian band established in 1999
- The Negatives, a band fronted by Lloyd Cole
- Negative (Yōsui Inoue album), 1987
- Negative (Negative album), 1999
- Negatives (album), a 2004 album by Phantom Planet
- The Negatives, a 2014 album by Cruel Hand
- Negative (song), a 1998 song by Mansun
- Negative (album) by Act Of Denial
Film and TV
- Negatives (1968 film), a 1968 film
- Negatives (1988 film), a 1988 film
Other uses
- Photo negative casting, a casting technique in acting by reversing the skin colours of actor and character.
- Negative sign, the passive or feminine signs of the zodiac in astrology
- Negative space, in art, the space around or between elements of the subject
- Negative (policy debate) (NEG), the team which negates the resolution in policy debate
- Negative feedback, a feedback loop that responds in the opposite direction to a perturbation
- Negative repetition, the performance of the eccentric phase of weight lifting
- Negative liberty is freedom from interference by other people
- Negative, several distinct concepts within the game of contract bridge, including:
- Double negative, see Glossary of contract bridge terms#doublenegative
- Herbert negative, see Glossary of contract bridge terms#herbertnegative
- Negative double
- Negative free bid
- Negative inference, see Glossary of contract bridge terms#negativeinference
- Negative response, see Glossary of contract bridge terms#negativeresponse
See also
- Mu (negative)
- Negation (disambiguation)
- Negativity (disambiguation)
- Positive (disambiguation)
- Double Negative (disambiguation)