Usually means: Aspects or qualities that benefit.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. positives: Merriam-Webster
  2. positives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. positives: Vocabulary.com
  4. Positives, positives: Wordnik
  5. positives: Wiktionary
  6. positives: Dictionary.com
  7. positives: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. positives: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. positives: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. positives: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. positives: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. positives: Idioms

(Note: See positive as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (positive)

adjective:  Included, present, characterized by affirmation.
adjective:  (law) Formally laid down.
adjective:  Stated definitively and without qualification.
adjective:  Fully assured in opinion.
adjective:  (mathematics) Of number, greater than zero.
adjective:  Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
adjective:  Overconfident, dogmatic.
adjective:  (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
adjective:  (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
adjective:  (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
adjective:  (grammar) Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
adjective:  Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
adjective:  Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
adjective:  Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
adjective:  (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
adjective:  Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
adjective:  Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
adjective:  Optimistic.
adjective:  (chemistry) electropositive
adjective:  (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
adjective:  (slang) HIV positive.
adjective:  (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').
adjective:  downright, confirmed, straight-up.
noun:  A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
noun:  A favourable point or characteristic.
noun:  Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
noun:  (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
noun:  (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
noun:  (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.
noun:  The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
noun:  A positive result of a test.
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