The Collaborative International Dictionary
Positively \Pos"i*tive*ly\, adv. In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively.
Good and evil which is removed may be esteemed good or
evil comparatively, and positively simply.
--Bacon.
Give me some breath, some little pause, my lord,
Before I positively speak herein.
--Shak.
I would ask . . . whether . . . the divine law does not
positively require humility and meekness.
--Sprat.
Positively charged or Positively electrified (Elec.), having a charge of positive electricity; -- opposed to negatively charged.
WordNet
adj. having a positive charge
Usage examples of "positively charged".
The result is that the depolarization overshoots the mark, and for a moment the interior of the cell takes on a small positive charge, thanks to the surplus of positively charged sodium ions that have entered, and a small negative charge is left outside the cell.
The number of positively charged particles is what they call the 'atomic number,' and these particles, together with the uncharged particles, make up the 'atomic weight.
It would carry a negative charge which would stabilize the positively charged blade and provide it a solid base without allowing it to eat its way back through to my hands.
For reasons not entirely understood the lighter particles tend to become positively charged and to be wafted by air currents to the top of the cloud.
These negatively charged particles have a powerful urge to rush to the positively charged Earth, and good luck to anything that gets in their way.
An atom is supposedly composed of a core with energy particles in it, some of them positively charged, some of them not charged at all.
The number of positively charged particles is what they call the ‘.
The electromagnetic attraction between negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons in the nucleus causes the electrons to orbit the nucleus of the atom, just as gravitational attraction causes the earth to orbit the sun.
A positively charged particle, very similar to the neutron, that accounts for roughly half the particles in the nucleus of most atoms.
As a result, the atoms in which the electrons were formerly embedded become positively charged.
The electron is negatively charged, the positron is positively charged.
Consider hydrogen: An ordinary hydrogen atom consists of a positively charged proton on the inside and a negatively charged electron on the outside.
An atom of anti-hydrogen consists of a negatively charged proton on the inside and a positively charged electron (also called a positron) on the outside.
An atom of hydrogen contains a proton, which is positively charged, and an electron, which is negatively charged.
Deep inside the atom, hidden far beneath the electron cloud, is the nucleus, generally composed of positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons.