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a. (context biology English) of an RNA strand that is complementary to the positive sense and not transcribed into DNA.
Usage examples of "negative sense".
For what then remains of light is - in Eddington's words - a 'quite irregular disturbance, with no tendency to periodicity', which means that to light is assigned the quality of an undefined chaos (in the negative sense of this word) sprung from pure chance.
She can also be regarded as a cynical voice, worldly-wise in a more negative sense.
If the two characters immediately become important to each other, the sexual tension increases-especially if they become important in a negative sense.
Oh, not in a negative sense, but she was certainly well aware of her own attractiveness, and her love for “.
People were more likely to live a dog's life, in the negative sense of the phrase, than were most dogs.
Both of which left little postmortem evidence except in a negative sense, unfortunately, but both of which were uniformly fatal.
He certainly had no reason to feel privileged, except in the negative sense that he and his four travelling companions had been chosen to be on the receiving end of a sudden run of bad luck.