semipositive

English

Alternative forms

semi-positive

Etymology

From semi- +‎ positive.

Adjective

semipositive (not comparable)

Partially positive in attitude etc.
- 1997, Kevin J. O'Connor, Lisa Mages Braverman, Lisa D. Braverman, Play Therapy Theory and Practice, →ISBN:
  Jason seemed to have two completely different ways of belonging and gaining significance — a negative method with his mother and a semipositive method with his father.
- 2010, Lois Crozier-Hogle, Darryl Babe Wilson, Jay Leibold, Surviving in Two Worlds: Contemporary Native American Voices, →ISBN:
  Chief Seathl looked to the future in a semipositive way, saying, "We aren't going to forget who we are. . ."
- 2004, Gloria Pilar Totoricaguena, Identity, Culture, and Politics in the Basque Diaspora, →ISBN, page 13:
  Basques in Sydney, Melbourne, and North Queensland tend to feel that they have been socially accepted with a semipositive status because of their excellent work reputations with non-Basque employers.
(mathematics) Having a dual that is nonnegative.
- 2015, Taro Fujisawa, “A remark on the decomposition theorem for direct images of canonical sheaves tensorized with semipositive vector bundles”, in arXiv‎^[1]:
  The purpose of this short note is to give a remark on the decomposition theorem for direct images of canonical sheaves tensorized with Nakano semipositive vector bundles.
(mathematics) Having all elements nonnegative where at least one is positive.
(materials engineering) A type of compression mold for plastics that allows for excess powder and flash, as in an open flash mold, but which allows for lower melt viscosities as in a fully positive mold.
- 1981, László Sors, László Bardócz, István Radnóti, Plastic molds and dies, →ISBN, page 26:
  For such products, a semipositive mold is designed (Fig. 1.1.14), with the flash at a right angle to the direction of pressure.
- 1996, Philip Mitchell, Tool and Manufacturing Engineers Handbook: Plastic Part Manufacturing, →ISBN:
  The semipositive, vertical-flash type mold, shown in Fig. 13-2, requires double fitting of force to cavity and is costly.
- 2006, Manas Chanda, Salil K. Roy, Plastics Technology Handbook, →ISBN, page 2-5:
  Semipositive molds are more expensive to manufacture and maintain than the other types, but they are much better from an applications point of view.