Positive quantity

(Alg.) an affirmative quantity, or one affected by the sign plus [+].

See also: Positive

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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We worked feverishly at carrying our plunder on deck and depositing it amidships, so feverishly that Maud, whose strength was hardly a positive quantity, had to give over, exhausted, and sit on the steps at the break of the poop.
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Both exports and imports are very inelastic to changes in relative prices, and eventual positive quantity effects in terms of these variables do not offset cost effects in economies where imports dominate the markets for goods and labor.
Gulf state currency crisis: which way out of the morass?
This assures the quality of the information garnered about teaching effectiveness, but assumes that SROI items contain at least some positive quantity of information.
The quantity of unique information in student ratings of instruction
Thus absolute entropy is a positive quantity in our (or positive) universe, just as time is a positive quantity in our (or positive) universe.
(32) implies that absolute temperature is a positive quantity in the negative universe.
Two-world background of special relativity. part II
A passive linear dipole (Figure 1) is assimilated in the electrical domain by a positive quantity that depends upon the working frequency and the circuit parameters.
Considerations about the modelling and simulation processes for mechatronic systems
This meant that a bidder submitting a positive quantity at the clearing price in the final round was faced with a binding commitment to make those reductions.
Emissions trading at work: the U.K.'s emissions trading scheme has been in operation for more than a year and a half now and has worked remarkably well. As Canada prepares its Kyoto treaty plans, it could learn from this model
Annuities are an arbitrary positive quantity of an asset that pays 1 if the policyholder is alive in period 2, else zero.
Mandatory pensions and the intensity of adverse selection in life insurance markets
By default, ORL is defined as a positive quantity, and reflectance is defined as a negative quantity.
Reflect on optical transmission systems
Because the numerator is a positive quantity minus a positive quantity, dS/dx cannot be signed.
Costs and benefits of per se rules in antitrust enforcement

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