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Negative vs Inverse - What's the difference?

negative | inverse |

In mathematics terms the difference between negative and inverse

is that negative is a negative quantity while inverse is the inverse of an element x with respect to a binary operation is an element that when combined with x yields the appropriate identity element.

In lang=en terms the difference between negative and inverse

is that negative is a right of veto while inverse is a statement constructed from the negatives of the premise and conclusion of some other statement: ~p → ~q is the inverse of p → q.

As adjectives the difference between negative and inverse

is that negative is not positive or neutral while inverse is opposite in effect or nature or order.

As nouns the difference between negative and inverse

is that negative is refusal or withholding of assents; veto, prohibition while inverse is the opposite of a given, due to contrary nature or effect.

As verbs the difference between negative and inverse

is that negative is to veto while inverse is to compute the bearing and distance between two points.

negative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • not positive or neutral
  • (physics) of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
  • (mathematics) of number, less than zero
  • (linguistics, logic) denying a proposition
  • damaging; undesirable; unfavourable
    • The high exchange rate will have a negative effect on our profits.
    Customers didn't like it: feedback was mostly negative .
  • pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. (Often used pejoratively.)
    • I don't like to hang around him very much because he can be so negative about his petty problems.
  • Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed.
  • (chemistry) metalloidal; nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
    • The nitro group is negative .
  • (New Age jargon) (pejorative) bad, unwanted, disagreeable, potentially damaging, to be avoided, unpleasant, difficult, painful; (often precedes 'energy', 'feeling', 'emotion' or 'thought').
  • * 2009 , Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner , John Wiley & Sons, p. 15
    • Negative' feelings can be worked through and their energy converted into positive energy... In crisis, normal patterns of self-organization fail, resulting in anxiety (' negative energy).
  • * 2011 , Joe Vitale, The Key: the missing secret for attracting anything you want , Body, Mind & Spirit, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hf5qEW9n_fsC&pg=PT109&dq=positive+feelings&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MkX-T8PQCo6KmQXjr4GhBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=unwanted%20feelings&f=false]
    • The threat of negative feelings may seem very real, but they are nothing more than mirages... Allow the unwanted feelings to evaporate and dissolve as the mirages that they are.
  • * 2011 , Anne Jones, Healing Negative Energies , Hachette, p. 118
    • If you have been badly affected by negative' energy a salt bath is wonderful for clearing and cleansing yourself... Salt attracts ' negative energy and will draw it away from you.

    Synonyms

    * (damaging) undesirable

    Antonyms

    * positive * (mathematics) nonnegative * (linguistics) affirmative

    Derived terms

    * negativeness * negativity * negative number * negative integer * negative polarity item * negative repetition * negative Nancy * negative verb * negative zero

    Related terms

    * negate * negation * negativism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • refusal or withholding of assents; veto, prohibition
  • * 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
    • Geoffrey Riddell , a great builder himself, disliked the request; could not however give it a negative .
  • (legal) a right of veto
  • * 1787 , , cited in The Constitutional Convention Of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia Of America's Founding (2005), Volume 1, page 391
    • And as to the Constitutionality of laws, that point will come before the Judges in their proper official character. In this character they have a negative on the laws.
  • * 1788 , Alexander Hamilton,
    • The qualified negative' of the President differs widely from this absolute ' negative of the British sovereign; [...]
  • * 1983 ,
    • In the convention there does not seem to have been much diversity of opinion on the subject of the propriety of giving to the president a negative on the laws.
  • (photography) an image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse
  • (grammar) a word that indicates negation
  • (mathematics) a negative quantity
  • (weightlifting): A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
  • The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

    • Derived terms

    * double negative * internegative

    Verb

    (negativ)
  • To veto
  • * L. T. Meade, The Palace Beautiful
    • Poppy earnestly begged to be allowed to go with Jasmine on the roof, but this the good lady negatived with horror.
  • To contradict
  • To disprove
  • * J. H. Riddell, Old Mrs Jones
    • At one time an idea got abroad that the whole tale of her fortune had been a myth; negatived the truth of this statement.

    Anagrams

    * agentive ----

    inverse

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Opposite in effect or nature or order
  • reverse, opposite in order
  • (botany) Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
  • (mathematics) Having the properties of an inverse; said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity.
    • Multiplication is the inverse operation to division.
  • (linguistics, Kiowa-Tanoan) A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number (or numbers) of the default number specification of noun class.
  • (category theory) A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.

    • Derived terms

    * inverse function * inversely

    Related terms

    * inversion * inversive * reverse

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The opposite of a given, due to contrary nature or effect.
  • :: ''Deposing is the inverse of installing, and vice versa
  • The reverse version of a procedure.
    • Removing one's shoes is the inverse of putting one's shoes on
  • (mathematics) The inverse of an element x'' with respect to a binary operation is an element that when combined with ''x yields the appropriate identity element.
    • The additive inverse of x is -x as, x + -x = 0 where 0 is the additive identity element.
    The multiplicative inverse of x is x-1 as, x * x-1 = 1 where 1 is the multiplicative identity element.
    ''The compositional inverse of a function f is f–1 as, f f–1 is the identity function (ie f–1(f(a)) = a for all a).
  • (logic) A statement constructed from the negatives of the premise and conclusion of some other statement: ~p ? ~q is the inverse of p ? q.

    • Verb

    (invers)
  • (surveying) To compute the bearing and distance between two points.

    • Antonyms

    * compute (a point).

    Anagrams

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