Usually means: Incorrect positive result in test.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word false positive:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. false positive: Merriam-Webster
  2. false positive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. false positive: Collins English Dictionary
  4. false-positive: Wordnik
  5. false positive: Wiktionary
  6. false-positive, false positive: Dictionary.com
  7. False Positive (How I Met Your Mother), False Positive (disambiguation), False Positive (film), False-positive, False positive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. false positive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. false positive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. false positive: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Technopedia (No longer online)
  3. false positive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. false positive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. False positive, Positive, false: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. false positive: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  8. False positive: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  9. False-positive: GLOSSARY of BLOOD RELATED TERMS
  10. FALSE POSITIVE: Vocabulary of Loss: Suicide, Grief, and Ethics
  11. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  12. false-positive, false positive: Medical dictionary
  13. All About Hepatitis C (No longer online)
  14. False positive, Positive, false: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. False Positive: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (false positive)

noun:  A result of a test that shows as present something that is absent.
noun:  (statistics) A type I error.

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