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semi-positive en · ADJ

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1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of semipositive.
   alt of semipositive
   • Usually, T-invariants are defined to be vectors over T, that is, mappings from T to the integer numbers Z. For the BA, we are only interested in semi-positive T-invariants, that is, mappings from T to the natural numbers N. 2003, Wil van der Aalst, Eike Best, Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 2003:
   • Figure 5 illustrates the action of a semi-positive mold. 1945, Modern Plastics Encyclopedia Issue, page 426:
   • But it's really tough to like or even keep a semi-positive attitude toward people who seem to try to make your life miserable -- people like one of my drill instructors in Recon school that hated me from the first second he saw me for some unknown reason. 2006, John Trent, The 2-Degree Difference: How Little Things Can Change Everything, →ISBN:
   • A few days later Jack told us the consensus of opinion was that the small tumor had looked highly suspicious, as in cancerous, but not the pancreatic kind. That was semi-positive, although I had a feeling it was his way of not scaring the crap out of us. 2015, Susan Fayne, Possible Micracle, →ISBN:
   • In any event, she nodded at the appropriate moments, initiating the mumbling semi-positive responses which pass for acquiescence in a seventeen year-old and so I felt confident that at least 10% of the rules would be adhered to about 5% of the time. 2009, Greg Stott, Notes from Beyond the Fringe, →ISBN, page 446: