nonnegative

[ non-neg-uh-tiv ]

adjective

, Mathematics.

1. (of a real number) greater than or equal to zero.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nonnegative¹

First recorded in 1880–85; non- + negative

Example Sentences

Positive numbers, negative numbers, and zero all give you nonnegative squares, and those three possibilities cover the whole number line.

From Literature

With rates low and net Treasury bill supply contracting, government money market funds, which at the same time were attracting notable inflows, had limited investment options at nonnegative rates.

From Reuters

Their scenario had habitat of area AT divided into patches such that there are 2j patches of area ρja0 for all nonnegative integers .

From Science Magazine

In everyday parlance, profit and loss are nonnegative concepts.

From Project Gutenberg

Many C functions, for example, return either a nonnegative integral value, or indicate failure with an out-of-band return value of -1.

From Project Gutenberg