Negative may refer to:

Science and mathematics

  • Negative number
  • Minus sign (−), the mathematical symbol
  • Negative mass
  • Negative energy
  • Negative charge, one of the two types of electric charge
  • Negative (electrical polarity), in electric circuits
  • Negative result (disambiguation)
  • Negative lens, in 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
  • "The Negative", song from the musical Waitress

Other uses

  • Negatives (film), a 1968 film
  • 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 liberty, freedom from interference by other people
  • Negative repetition, the performance of the eccentric phase of weight lifting
  • Negative sign, the passive or feminine signs of the zodiac in astrological sign polarity
  • Negative space, in art, the space around or between elements of the subject

See also

  • Mu (negative)
  • Negation (disambiguation)
  • Negativity (disambiguation)
  • Positive (disambiguation)
  • Double Negative (disambiguation)
  • Negative test
  • Positive and negative (disambiguation)