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/nˈɛgətɪvli tʃɑrdʒd/ Listen

adverb

Negatively adv.

In a negative manner; with or by denial. "He answered negatively."

In the form of speech implying the absence of something; opposed to positively. "I shall show what this image of God in man is, negatively, by showing wherein it does not consist, and positively, by showing wherein it does consist."

Negatively charged or Negatively electrified (Elec.), having a charge of the kind of electricity called negative, as does the electron.

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Etymology of 'Negatively charged'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Negatively charged" Quotes from Famous Books

... which appears to pervade all space, and to which the name of Ether has been given. Some of these particles carry a positive charge of electricity and some a negative, and the chemical atom is formed by the grouping of a certain number of negatively charged particles round a centre composed of positive electricity around which they revolve; and it is the number of these particles and the rate of their motion that determines the nature of the atom, whether, for instance, it will be an atom of ...

— The Law and the Word • Thomas Troward

... formation of a salt from a metal and a metalloid we have an entirely new substance, quite different from its components; and at the same time, the product is seen to be an electrolyte, i.e. to have the power of splitting up into a positively and a negatively charged constituent when dissolved in some solvent. These considerations lead to the conviction that forces of a "polar" origin play an important part here, and indeed we may make the general surmise that in the act of chemical combination ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various

... really had the great secret under his eyes. But about twenty years elapsed before the true nature of these rays was finally and independently established by various experiments. The experiments proved "that the rays consisted of a stream of negatively charged particles travelling with enormous velocities from 10,000 to 100,000 miles a second. In addition, it was found that the mass of each particle was exceedingly small, about 1/1800 of the mass of a hydrogen atom, the lightest atom known to science." ...

— The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) - A Plain Story Simply Told • J. Arthur Thomson