positive

1. (law) Formally laid down.Examples: "In laws, that which is natural bindeth universally; that which is positive, not so."

2. (mathematics, of a number) Greater than zero.Antonyms: negative, nonpositive

3. (mathematics, of a number, sometimes) Greater than or equal to zero.Examples: "Notice that each time the calculator balance becomes positive (zero or greater), the dollar item that forces this balance to become positive is selected for examination. Since each of these dollar items is contained […]"; "a step 10 which judges whether each of the m amounts of differences in amount of voltage changes ΔHv1 to ΔHvm are positive (zero or greater than zero) or negative (less than zero): and […]"Synonyms: nonnegativeAntonyms: negative, nonpositivesometimes

4. (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.Examples: "[I]f the privation be good, it followes not the former condition was evill, but lesse good; for the flower or blossome, is a positive good, although the remove of it to give place to the fruit, be a comparative good."; "1885, Marcellin Berthelot, Les Origines de l'Alkimie as quoted in M. M. Pattison Muir, A History of Chemical Theories and Laws, 1907. Chemistry is not a primitive science, like geometry or astronomy; it is constructed from the debris of a previous scientific formation; a formation half chimerical and half positive..."

5. (physics) Having more protons than electrons.Examples: "A cation is a positive ion as it has more protons than electrons."Antonyms: negative

6. (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.Examples: "‘Better’ is an irregular comparative of the positive form ‘good’."