FP
2 antonyms and opposites of FP, grouped by meaning.
Noun — A false positive: a test, filter or detector result that wrongly indicates something is present when it is not.
Synonyms by Meaning
1. noun technical
A false positive: a test, filter or detector result that wrongly indicates something is present when it is not.
“The scanner flagged 200 files, but most were FPs.”
Opposites
2. noun
Family planning: services, advice and contraception that help people decide whether and when to have children.
“The FP clinic offers free contraception and counselling.”
3. noun technical
Freezing point: the temperature at which a liquid becomes solid.
“The solvent has an FP of −95°C.”
Antonyms
How to Use Fp
The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.
Written in capitals without full stops. Always spell it out on first use in a document, since the expansions are unrelated.
Etymology
An initialism, expanding differently by field — false positive, family planning or freezing point.
Full origin of FP →Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between FP and FN?
An FP, or false positive, is a wrong alarm: the test says yes when the answer is no. An FN, or false negative, is a miss: the test says no when the answer is yes. Tuning a system to reduce one usually increases the other.
What is an FP rate?
The false positive rate is the proportion of genuinely negative cases that a test wrongly flags as positive. A spam filter with a 1% FP rate sends one legitimate email in a hundred to the junk folder.