Negative

Negative may refer to:

Science and mathematics

 * Negative number
 * Minus sign (−), the mathematical symbol
 * Negative mass
 * Negative energy
 * Negative charge, one of the two types of electric charge
 * Negative (electrical polarity), in electric circuits
 * Negative result (disambiguation)
 * Negative lens, in optics

Photography

 * Negative (photography), an image with inverted luminance or a strip of film with such an image
 * Original camera negative, the film in a motion picture camera which captures the original image
 * Paper negative, a negative image printed on paper used to create the final print of a photograph

Linguistics

 * A negative answer, commonly expressed with the word no
 * A type of grammatical construction; see affirmative and negative
 * A double negative is a construction occurring when two forms of grammatical negation are used in the same sentence.

Music

 * Negative (Finnish band), a Finnish band established in 1997
 * Negative (Serbian band), a Serbian band established in 1999
 * The Negatives, a band fronted by Lloyd Cole
 * Negative (Yōsui Inoue album), 1987
 * Negative (Negative album), 1999
 * Negatives (album), a 2004 album by Phantom Planet
 * The Negatives, a 2014 album by Cruel Hand
 * Negative (song), a 1998 song by Mansun
 * Negative (album) by Act Of Denial

Other uses

 * Negatives (film), a 1968 film
 * Negative (policy debate) (NEG), the team which negates the resolution in policy debate
 * Negative feedback, a feedback loop that responds in the opposite direction to a perturbation
 * Negative liberty, freedom from interference by other people
 * Negative repetition, the performance of the eccentric phase of weight lifting
 * Negative sign, the passive or feminine signs of the zodiac in astrological sign polarity
 * Negative space, in art, the space around or between elements of the subject