The Collaborative International Dictionary
Electro-positive \E*lec`tro-pos"i*tive\, n. (Chem. & Physics) A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.
Electro-positive \E*lec`tro-pos"i*tive\, a.
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(Physics) Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; -- the converse or correlative of electro-negative.
Note: An element that is electro-positive in one compound may be electro-negative in another, and vice versa.
(Chem.) Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid.
Usage examples of "electro-positive".
It was thus that man in this state of consciousness was compelled to picture the foundation of the physical universe as being made up of gravity and electricity, as we meet them in the modern picture of the atom, with its heavy electro-positive nucleus and the virtually weightless electro-negative electrons moving round it.