Sometimes it is used with the opposite signs, thus obtaining (3, 1, 0) signature.

This would need to be cancelled almost, but not exactly, by an equally large term of the opposite sign.

This cannot explain the opposite sign of the Hall effect observed.

He made the sign of life and death, equal and opposite.

But these changes of opposite sign in summer and winter are not of the same magnitude everywhere on the Earth's surface.

Its expected value can even have the opposite sign from the true skewness.

Thus if then the eigenvalues are of opposite sign, and the fixed point is a saddle.

These months exhibited the most pronounced 30-year temperature changes over the period, but are of opposite sign.

Every action has its reaction, sir, of equal moment and opposite sign.

Its being a pole rather than zero accounts for the opposite sign of the term.