false positive
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
false positive (plural false positives)
- A result of a test that shows as present something that is absent.
- 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.
- (statistics) type I error
Synonyms[edit]
- FP (abbreviation)
- (result of a test that shows as present something that is absent): false alarm
Antonyms[edit]
- (result of a test that shows as present something that is absent): false negative
- (type I error in statistics): false negative, type II error
Translations[edit]
result of a test that shows as present something that is absent