Negative

Negative may refer to:

Science and mathematics

• Negative number
• Negative mass
• Negative energy (disambiguation)
• Electrical polarity
• Negative result (disambiguation)
• Negative lenses, uses to describe diverging optics, see lens (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

Music

Bands

• Negative (Finnish band), a Finnish band established in 1997
• Negative (Serbian band), a Serbian band with female lead singer established in 1999
• The Negatives, a band fronted by Lloyd Cole

Albums

• Negative (Yōsui Inoue album), 1987
• Negative (Negative album), 1999
• Negatives (Phantom Planet album), 2004
• The Negatives, a 2014 album by Cruel Hand

Songs

• "Negative (Mansun song), 1998

Film and TV

• Negatives (1968 film), a 1968 film
• Negatives (1988 film), a 1988 film

Other uses

• 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

See also

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