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) A type I error.
- FP (abbreviation)
- (result of a test that shows as present something that is absent): false alarm
result of a test that shows as present something that is absent
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 假阳性 (jiǎyángxìng)
- Czech: falešně pozitivní výsledek m, nesprávné pozitivní výsledek m, falešný poplach m, planý poplach m
- Dutch: vals positief resultaat, vals alarm
- Finnish: väärä positiivinen
- French: faux positif (fr) m, fausse alerte f
- Galician: falso positivo m
- German: (science) falsch positives Ergebnis n; (otherwise) Fehlalarm m, Falschmeldung (de) f
- Greek: ψευδώς θετικό n (psevdós thetikó)
- Hebrew: זיהוי חיובי שגוי
- Hungarian: hamis pozitív, téves riasztás, hamis riasztás, vakriasztás (hu)
- Indonesian: hasil positif palsu, alarm palsu
- Irish: bréagdheimhneacht f
- Polish: wynik fałszywie dodatni m, fałszywy alarm m
- Portuguese: falso positivo m
- Romanian: rezultat fals-pozitiv, alarmă falsă
- Russian: ложноположи́тельный результа́т m (ložnopoložítelʹnyj rezulʹtát), ло́жное сраба́тывание n (lóžnoje srabátyvanije)
- Serbo-Croatian: lažno pozitivan rezultat m, lažna uzbuna f
- Slovak: falošne pozitívny výsledok m, nesprávne pozitívny výsledok m, falošný poplach m, planý poplach m
- Slovene: napačna pozitivna prepoznava, lažni alarm
- Spanish: falso positivo m
- Swedish: falsk positiv
- Turkish: yanlış alarm
- Ukrainian: хибнопозитивний результат m (xybnopozytyvnyj rezulʹtat), помилкове спрацювання n (pomylkove spracjuvannja)
- Vietnamese: nhận diện sai, kết quả dương tính giả, báo động giả, dương tính giả
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