Negative

Updated: 10/11/2017 by Computer Hope

A negative may refer to any of the following:

1. Alternatively known as an inverted image or inverted color, a negative is any image with reversed colors. For example, with an image containing white and black colors, white becomes black, and black becomes white. The picture below is an example of an original picture in MSPaint and then the same image inverted to a negative image.

Inverted photograph

2. A negative or negative sign describes a minus or hyphen.

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