A (part of a) newspaper or magazine that has articles on films, books, travel, famous people, etc

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  1A desirable or constructive quality or attribute.
  

‘take your weaknesses and translate them into positives’

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  2A positive photographic image, especially one printed from a negative.
  

‘the photographic process involves separate runs with the red, green, and blue separation positives’

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  3A result of a test or experiment indicating that a certain substance or condition is present or exists.
  

‘let us look at the distribution of those positives’

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  4mass noun The part of an electric circuit that is at a higher electrical potential than another point designated as having zero electrical potential.
  

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  5A number greater than zero.
  

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  6Grammar
  An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
  

Origin

Late Middle English from Old French positif, -ive or Latin positivus, from posit- ‘placed’, from the verb ponere. The original sense referred to laws as being formally ‘laid down’, which gave rise to the sense ‘explicitly laid down and admitting no question’, hence ‘certain’.