adjective
- greater than or equal to zero; not negative
Usage: mathematics
Examples
- All nonnegative integers include zero and the positive whole numbers.
- The function returns only nonnegative values.
- In this equation, x must be nonnegative.
- The square of any real number is always nonnegative.
- We need to find all nonnegative solutions to the inequality.
- The probability of an event is always a nonnegative number.