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photonegative

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pho·to·neg·a·tive  (ft-ng-tv)
adj. Biology
Repelled by light; exhibiting a negative phototactic or phototropic response.

photonegative [ˌfəʊtəʊˈnɛgətɪv]
adj
(Physics / General Physics) Physics (of a material) having an electrical conductivity that decreases with increasing illumination


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Middleton and Rowley's frequent couplings may have been elective, but we know too little about their bond to hypostasize it as the play's ideal, photonegative original, an "anti-allegory" of "its conditions of production," "the perverted result of the experience of its writers" (117)--not, at least, without longer discussions of other efforts (like A Fair Quarrel) that seem also to thematize friendship.
The suburban computer meccas of Irvine and Austin have a photonegative image in the scores of decaying inner-ring suburbs around Minneapolis or Chicago, the "midopolises" that are now afflicted with all the urban problems that their residents thought they had escaped.
Deep Ultra Violet (DUV) light passes through conventional masks like light through a photonegative.
 
 
 
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