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• Negative gearing (Australia) — Negative gearing is a form of financial leverage where an investor borrows money to buy an asset, but the income generated by that asset does not cover the interest on the loan. The investor must fund the shortfall until the asset is sold, at… …   Wikipedia

• Negative resistance — is a property of some electric circuits where an increase in the current entering a port results in a decreased voltage across the same port. This is in contrast to a simple ohmic resistor, which exhibits an increase in voltage under the same… …   Wikipedia

• Negative theology — also known as the Via Negativa (Latin for Negative Way ) and Apophatic theology is a theology that attempts to describe God by negation, to speak of God only in terms of what may not be said about God. In brief, the attempt is to gain and express …   Wikipedia

• Negative capability — describes the resistance to a set of institutional arrangements or a system of knowledge about the world and human experience. It explains the capacity of human beings to reject the totalizing constraints of a closed context, and to both… …   Wikipedia

• Negative checking — is a process by which producers of film, television and radio programs will attempt to ensure that the names of fictional characters cannot be confused with real life people. For instance, during the making of the series Inspector Morse, the… …   Wikipedia

• Negative frequency — The concept of negative and positive frequency can be as simple as a wheel rotating one way or the other way.[citation needed] A signed value of frequency indicates both the rate and direction of rotation.[citation needed] The rate is expressed… …   Wikipedia

• Negative 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… …   Wikipedia

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• Negative and positive rights — Rights Theoretical distinctions Natural and legal rights Claim rights and liberty rights Negative and positive rights I …   Wikipedia

• Negative 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… …   Wikipedia