(film, television) A contract between a producer and a studio in which the studio agrees to buy a movie or show at a future date and for a fixed sum.

plural of negative pickup

(computing) A signed magnitude representation of zero in which the sign bit indicates a negative number.

Not negative. / (mathematics) Of an element of a partially ordered ring, either positive or zero; not negative; greater than or equal to zero.

(economics) The opposite of economic growth; economic decline.

(grammar) a clause that states a negative

A result of a test that shows as absent something that is present. / (statistics) A type II error (“accepting the null hypothesis when it is false”).

(curling) A shot in which the player curls the stone in the opposite direction in which the stone is expected to curve, due to significant defects in flatness of the ice surface

(medicine, of a bacterium) that is not stained violet by Gram's method

(game theory) of a situation in which there is a net loss