â¢ POSITIVE (noun) The noun POSITIVE has 1 sense: 1. a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject. Familiarity information: POSITIVE used as a noun is very rare. â¢ POSITIVE (adjective) The adjective POSITIVE has 11 senses: 1. characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
A fourth cousin is someone in a family who shares the same great-great-great-grandparents. First cousins share the same grandparents and second cousins have the same great-grandparents. Ordinal numbers of cousins are in the same generation as each other. For instance, all of the children of siblings are first cousins.
Now, let's look at the inheritance pattern of two second cousins once removed. This graph shows the areas where my dad's siblings match this Moore cousin. They share twice as many segments as two of us third cousins and three times as many as my sister who has the least DNA in common with them.