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91Negative index metamaterials — A negative index metamaterial causes light to refract, or bend, differently than in more common positive refractive index materials. Negative index metamaterials or negative index materials (NIM) are artificial structures where the refractive… …
92Negative number — This thermometer is indicating a slightly negative …
93Negative binomial distribution — Probability mass function The orange line represents the mean, which is equal to 10 in each of these plots; the green line shows the standard deviation. notation: parameters: r > 0 number of failures until the experiment is stopped (integer,… …
94Negative and non-negative numbers — A negative number is a number that is less than zero, such as −2. A positive number is a number that is greater than zero, such as 2. Zero itself is neither positive nor negative. The non negative numbers are the real numbers that are not… …
95Negative campaigning — Part of the Politics series Political campaigning Finance …
96Negative and positive rights — Rights Theoretical distinctions Natural and legal rights Claim rights and liberty rights Negative and positive rights I …
97Negative mass — In theoretical physics, negative mass is a hypothetical concept of matter whose mass is of opposite sign to the mass of the normal matter. Such matter would violate one or more energy conditions and show some strange properties such as being… …
98Negative temperature — In physics, certain systems can achieve negative temperatures; that is, their thermodynamic temperature can be a negative quantity. Negative temperatures can be expressed as negative numbers on the kelvin scale. Temperatures that are expressed as …
99Negative liberty — Part of a series on Freedom Concepts …
100Negative predictive value — In statistics and diagnostic testing, the negative predictive value (NPV) is a summary statistic used to describe the performance of a diagnostic testing procedure. It is defined as the proportion of subjects with a negative test result who are… …
