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positive | aggressive |

As a noun positive

is .

As an adjective aggressive is

tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.

positive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (legal) Formally laid down.
  • * Hooker
  • In laws, that which is natural bindeth universally; that which is positive , not so.
  • Stated definitively and without qualification.
  • * :
  • Positive words, that he would not bear arms against King Edward’s son.
  • Fully assured in opinion.
  • I’m absolutely positive you've spelt that wrong.
  • (mathematics) Of number, greater than zero.
  • Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
  • * :
  • a positive voice in legislation.
  • Overconfident, dogmatic.
  • * :
  • Some positive , persisting fops we know, That, if once wrong, will needs be always so.
  • (chiefly, philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
  • * :
  • Positive good.
  • (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
  • A cation is a positive ion as it has more protons than electrons.
  • (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
  • ‘Better’ is an irregular comparative of the positive form ‘good’.
  • Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute.
  • The idea of beauty is not positive , but depends on the different tastes of individuals.
  • Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
  • The box was not empty – I felt some positive substance within it.
  • Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
  • The results of our experiment are positive .
  • (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
  • A positive photograph can be developed from a photographic negative.
  • Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
  • The first-night reviews were largely positive .
  • Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
  • Good lord, you've built up a positive arsenal of weaponry here.
  • Optimistic.
  • He has a positive outlook on life.
  • (chemistry) electropositive
  • (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
  • (slang) HIV positive.
  • (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').
  • 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). Being open systems, people can exchange this energy with the environment and create ' positive energy for taking action...

    Synonyms

    * (sense, steadfast in one's knowledge or belief) certain, sure, wis

    Antonyms

    * (physics) negative * (mathematics) nonpositive * (doubtful) uncertain, unsure * (spiritual quality) bad, evil, nongood

    Derived terms

    * positivism * dipositive * positive crystal * positive degree * positive electricity * positive eyepiece * positive law * positively * positive motion * positive philosophy * positive pole * positive quantity * positive rotation * positive sign * positive contribution * tripositive * unipositive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
  • (South)
  • A favourable point or characteristic.
  • Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
  • (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
  • (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
  • The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
  • aggressive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.
  • an aggressive policy, war, person, nation
  • (label) Of code optimization techniques: exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
  • * 1996 , Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6 , Springer (ISBN 9783540610533), page 59
  • This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.
  • * 2001 , Paul Feautrier (edited by Santosh Pande and Dharma P. Agrawal), Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems , Springer (ISBN 9783540419457), page 173
  • Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.
  • * 2002 , Y. N. Srikant, Priti Shankar, The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation , CRC Press (ISBN 9781420040579), page 465
  • However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation.
  • * 2002 , Shpeisman, T. ; Lueh, G.-Y. ; Adl-Tabatabai, A.-R., PACT 2002: 2002 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques : proceedings : 22-25 September, 2002, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA , IEEE Computer Society Press (ISBN 9780769516202), page 249
  • The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.
  • * 2003 , Susanna Pelagatti (edited by Fethi Rabhi and Sergei Gorlatch), Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing , Springer (ISBN 9781852335069), page 182
  • This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure.
  • * 2011 , Wen-mei W. Hwu, GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition , Elsevier (ISBN 9780123859648), page 11
  • The CUDA C code for the GPU, as well as the C and inline assembly code for the CPU, were highly optimized and aggressive compiler optimizations (-O4) were turned on.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * aggressively * aggressiveness * aggressivity * microaggressive * passive-aggressive