; Negative ice: A shot in which the player curls the stone in the opposite direction in which the stone is expected to curve, due to significant defects in flatness of the ice surface ; for example, if the curvature of the ice causes all stones to drift sharply to the right, a skip may request the shooter to aim to the left of the desired location and curve the stone to the left as well.

Negative network externalities can also occur, where more users make a product less valuable, but are more commonly referred to as " congestion " ( as in traffic congestion or network congestion ).

Negative symptoms are deficits of normal emotional responses or of other thought processes, and respond less well to medication.

Negative film typically has a gamma less than 1 ; positive film ( slide film, reversal film ) typically has a gamma greater than 1.

Negative mood participants were less likely to attribute successful outcomes to the self than positive mood participants, attributing success to external factors.

* Negative index metamaterials, also known as double negative metamaterials, materials in which both permittivity and magnetic permeability are less than zero.

Negative publicity over some of the clubs less than reputable patrons led to problems and eventually Sanderson had to get out of what went from a " goldmine " to a money-losing venture.

Negative shocks are much less common than positive shocks as technology rarely moves backwards.

Negative equity occurs when the value of an asset used to secure a loan is less than the outstanding balance on the loan.

Negative luminescence is a physical phenomenon by which an electronic device emits less thermal radiation when an electric current is passed through it than it does in thermal equilibrium ( current off ).

If the project could have significant environmental impacts, but the lead agency has incorporated mitigation measures to lower those impacts to less than significant, no EIR will be necessary, but the lead agency must prepare a Mitigated Negative Declaration.

Negative relatedness occurs when two individuals are less related than average.

Negative spaces such as the " bore " are labeled in white text outlined in black ; all other text in black only.

* Negative stain – suspensions containing nanoparticles or fine biological material ( such as viruses and bacteria ) are briefly mixed with a dilute solution of an electron-opaque solution such as ammonium molybdate, uranyl acetate ( or formate ), or phosphotungstic acid.

: Post-production Supervisors are responsible for the post-production process, during which they maintain clarity of information and good channels of communication between the Producer, Editor, Supervising Sound Editor, the Facilities Companies ( such as film labs, CGI studios and Negative Cutters ) and the Production Accountant.

As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, his writings — such as Dialectic of Enlightenment ( 1947 ), Minima Moralia ( 1951 ) and Negative Dialectics ( 1966 )— strongly influenced the European New Left.

* The Inner Planes ( representing planes of elemental nature, such as Water, Earth, Fire, and Air, as well as the Positive and Negative energy planes )

Negative mass would possess some strange properties, such as accelerating in the direction opposite of applied force.

Members of bands such as DYS, Negative FX, and SS Decontrol formed the Boston Crew, a militant straight edge group that frequently assaulted punks who drank or used drugs.

Many Boston bands such as SS Decontrol, Gang Green, DYS, and The F. U. 's, as well as Midwestern hardcore bands Necros, Negative Approach and The Meatmen moved in a slower, heavier hard rock direction.

* Negative kinematics, e. g. principles of negative derivatives ( integrals ) of displacement, such as absement ( the area under the displacement-time curve ), as embodied by hydraulophones ( water-based instruments ).

Negative news, such as litigation against a company, may also entice professional traders to sell the stock short.

# Negative punishment ( Penalty ) ( also called " Punishment by contingent withdrawal "): occurs when a behavior ( response ) is followed by the removal of a stimulus, such as taking away a child's toy following an undesired behavior, resulting in a decrease in that behavior.

Negative numbers are used to describe values on a scale that goes below zero, such as the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales for temperature.

Negative moods, such as anxiety, often lead individuals to misinterpret physical symptoms.

* Negative Branch Reservations ( NBR )-Identify potential negative ramifications of any action ( such as an injection, or a half-baked idea ).

Records as a singles-only label in 1984 and signed Boston-area bands such as Gang Green, Last Rights, Negative FX, Stranglehold, Last Stand and Kilslug.

* Negative ( photography ), an image with inverted luminance or a strip of film with such an image

* Negative ( photography ), as opposed to positive images used in such applications as slide projection or photo emulsion stencil-making

Negative index metamaterials are artificial structures for which refractive index has a negative value for some frequency range, such as in microwave, infrared, or possibly optical.

Berlin described a statement such as " I am slave to no man " as one of Negative Liberty, that is, freedom from another individual's direct interference.

Negative environmental influences, such as maternal deprivation, child abuse and stress have been shown to have a profound effect on gene expression, including transgenerational epigenetic effects in which physiological and behavioral ( intellectual ) transfer of information across generations-not-yet-conceived is effected.

* Negative phototaxis, or movement away from a light source, is demonstrated in some insects, such as cockroaches.

Negative liberty is primarily concerned with the possession of sociological agency and contrasts with positive liberty ( an individual's freedom from inhibitions of the social structure within the society such as classism, sexism, or racism ).

Negative perceptions by a person regarding his or her body, such as a perception that he or she is fat, can in some cases lead to mental disorders such as depression or eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa, though there can be a variety of different reasons why these disorders can occur.

* Negative Covariance Effect If some species do better when other species are not doing well, then when there are more species in the ecosystem, their overall variance will be lower than if there were fewer species in the system.

If the Affirmative plan were to send peacekeeping troops to Congo, then the Negative would have Bangladesh ( or any other country ), do it.

Example: If the DA ( ran by the Negative ) says that the Affirmative plan will create nuclear proliferation, then the Uniqueness in the DA needs to show that there is not nuclear proliferation in the status quo.

If the Affirmative claims that there is already nuclear proliferation, and the ( affirmative ) plan creates nuclear proliferation as claimed by the Negative, then all the negative will need to show is that nuclear proliferation will uniquely increase after the adoption of the plan ( the more increase proven, the better Uniqueness ).

If the lead agency determines the project could have no significant environmental impacts after completing the initial study, no EIR will be necessary, but the lead agency must still prepare a Negative Declaration ( Neg Dec ) that discloses the impact analysis.

* To have not understood ( something you hear ) Negative absolute complement of resultNote that the existence of an absolute complement of result forces the active verb into the perfective aspect, as discussing the absolute result of an unfinished action would be meaningless — hence the use of 没 ( méi ) to negate the verb.

* To be unable to understand ( something you hear ) Negative possible complement of resultNote that the result is negated in this construction, not the active verb, and that the use of 不 ( bù ), not 没 ( méi ) is required because the resulting action, being only a possibility, can obviously not be in a completed state.

" Negative questions " are interrogative sentences which contain negation in their phrasing, such as " Shouldn't you be working ?".