E-lĕc'tro-pŏs'i-tive1, a.
a. Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, while the associated body tends to the positive pole;—the converse or correlative of electro-negative.
☞ An element that is electro-positive in one compound may be electro-negative in another, and vice versa.