the grammatical characteristic of a word or phrase, such as delicious or rather, that may normally only be used in a semantically or syntactically positive or affirmative context
Examples of 'positive polarity' in a sentence
positive polarity
We conclude that negative and positive polarity violations involve at least partly distinct mechanisms.
Mingya Liu, Peter König, Peter König, Jutta L. Mueller 2019, 'Novel ERP Evidence for Processing Differences Between Negative and Positive PolarityItems in German', Frontiers in Psychologyhttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00376/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Positive polarity signals were recorded in the far-field zone (> 100 km).
Akbashev Rinat, Firstov Pavel, Cherneva Nina 2018, 'Recording of atmospheric electrical potential gradient in the central part of Kamchatkapeninsula', E3S Web of Conferenceshttps://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20186202013. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Moreover, no modulation of cortico-spinal reactivity was associated with either negative or positive polarityabstract sentences.
Marco Tullio Liuzza, Matteo Candidi, Salvatore Maria Aglioti 2011, 'Do not resonate with actions: sentence polarity modulates cortico-spinal excitabilityduring action-related sentence reading.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3037953?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The arc voltage shows that the pulsed plasma gas had a greater influence on the electrode positive polarity voltage.
Zhenyang Lu, Wang Zhang, Fan Jiang, Shujun Chen, Zhaoyang Yan 2019, 'A Primary Study of Variable Polarity Plasma Arc Welding Using a Pulsed Plasma Gas',Materialshttps://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/12/10/1666. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This induction cell runs in positive polarity and the output transmission line operates in the vacuum insulation state.
Fan Guo, Weiping Xie, Zhi Wang, Jihao Jiang, Minghe Xia, Bing Wei, Shuping Feng, YueZhao, Junjun Kang, Meng Wang, Wenkang Zou, Lin Chen 2019, 'Design of a 1-MV induction cavity and validation of the two-dimensional circuit model',Physical Review Accelerators and Beamshttp://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.22.020401. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This effect, however, was more pronounced for positive polarity in no tinnitus and normal hearing individuals (healthy students group).
Marzena Mielczarek, Arnaud Norena, Winfried Schlee, Jurek Olszewski 2018, 'Excitation of the Auditory System as a Result of Non-invasive Extra-Cochlear Stimulationin Normal Subjects and Tinnitus Patients', Frontiers in Neurosciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2018.00146/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In contrast to the left-localized negative effect reported with older infants, the observed overall mean effect had a positive polarity.
Valesca eKooijman, Caroline eJunge, Elizabeth K Johnson, Peter eHagoort, Peter eHagoort,Anne eCutler, Anne eCutler, Anne eCutler 2013, 'Predictive brain signals of linguistic development', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00025/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)