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Electronegative

Electro-negative \E*lec`tro-neg"a*tive\, Electronegative \E*lec`tro*neg"a*tive\, a. (Chem. & Physics)

  1. Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other. Contrasted with neutral and electropositive

  2. Negative; nonmetallic; acidic; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.

  3. (Physics) carrying a negative electrical charge.

  4. (Chem. and Physics) having a tendency to take up electrons and form negative ions; having a relatively positive electrode potential.

Wiktionary
electronegative

a. 1 having a negative electric charge 2 (context chemistry English) tending to attract electrons to form a chemical bond

WordNet
electronegative

adj. having a negative electric charge; "electrons are negative" [syn: negative] [ant: neutral, positive]

Wikipedia
Electronegative (EP)

Electronegative is an EP from the Greek metal band Nightfall.

Usage examples of "electronegative".

Whenever the no-sponsors took a shower, their skin was coated with microbeads of an electronegative halogen solution, which would show up on the Clarissa Frayne scanner.

The generator could have shorted out the electronegative halogen microbeads in their pores.

The signal was very faint, as if most of the electronegative micro-beads used to track the orphans had been removed, or shorted out.