Sentences with false positive
false pos·i·tive
F f - ...a high rate of false positive results.
- A false-positive for syphilis.
- A false-positive at the airport could cause you to miss your flight.
- The test has a false-positive rate of 4%.
- A false positive from a cancer screening test will unnecessarily frighten a healthy person; a false negative will deprive them of timely treatment. A false positive can be returned on a password checking algorithm when the password is tested against a dictionary but the password does not contain a dictionary word.