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Since the word "plus" can mean an advantage, or an additional amount of something, such "+" signs imply that a product offers extra features or benefits. Positive and negative are sometimes abbreviated as +ve and −ve, [22] and on batteries and cell terminals are often marked with + and −.
"Unpaired words" at World Wide Words "Absent antonyms" at 2Wheels: The Return; Words with no opposite equivalent, posted by James Briggs on April 2, 2003, at The Phrase Finder; Brev Is the Soul of Wit, Ben Schott, The New York Times, April 19, 2010; Parker, J. H. "The Mystery of The Vanished Positive" in Daily Mail, Annual for Boys and Girls, 1953
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The plus and minus symbols are used to show the sign of a number. In mathematics, the sign of a real number is its property of being either positive, negative, or 0.Depending on local conventions, zero may be considered as having its own unique sign, having no sign, or having both positive and negative sign.
Positive ends – The possibility of taking advantage of a new security environment to create conditions for long-term peace – Wass de Czege; Primary Trinity – (1) primordial violence, hatred, and enmity; (2) the play of chance and probability; and (3) war's element of subordination to rational policy – Clausewitz
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In linguistics and grammar, affirmation (abbreviated AFF) and negation (NEG) are ways in which grammar encodes positive and negative polarity into verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances. An affirmative (positive) form is used to express the validity or truth of a basic assertion, while a negative form expresses its falsity.
A positive criticism can be stated as a positive alternative ("there are good reasons for thinking that we are better off to do Y, instead of X"). It does not necessarily say, that the option criticized is all bad, but rather that an alternative option is better , or preferable.