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"sense": "antonym(s) of \"result of a test that shows as present something that is absent\"",
"word": "false negative"
},
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"text": "A false positive from a cancer screening test will unnecessarily frighten a healthy person; a false negative will deprive them of timely treatment."
},
{
"text": "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."
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"sense": "result of a test that shows as present something that is absent",
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},
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"word": "假阳性"
},
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"word": "téves riasztás"
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"word": "hasil positif palsu"
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"sense": "result of a test that shows as present something that is absent",
"word": "yanlış alarm"
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"roman": "xybnopozytyvnyj rezulʹtat",
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pomylkove spracjuvannja",
"sense": "result of a test that shows as present something that is absent",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "помилкове спрацювання"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "result of a test that shows as present something that is absent",
"word": "nhận diện sai"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "result of a test that shows as present something that is absent",
"word": "kết quả dương tính giả"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "result of a test that shows as present something that is absent",
"word": "báo động giả"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "result of a test that shows as present something that is absent",
"word": "dương tính giả"
}
],
"word": "false positive"
}
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