It can mean either as the root of the word is "Imply" but, normally, it is used in a negative sense... especially in a court-room setting where a first event "implies" that a second event either happened, or was intended to happen. An example is when a 5yo gets on a chair to get the cookie jar down from the top shelf... It could very rationally be implied that he wanted to eat a cookie or two, not examine the art-work on the ceramic jar.
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"Whole number" may refer to an integer, or it may refer to a POSITIVE integer. Because of this ambiguity in the definition, it is preferable to talk about integers, positive integers, or non-negative integers, depending on what you mean.
It is neither. It is just a phrase coined by animal rights activists to refer to large-scale animal agriculture, though it certainly has very negative connotations.
It can refer to the absolute value: that is the "positive" (or non-negative) value of the expression.
The phrase "over the hill" is pejorative.It's used to refer to any living, evolving thing ... usually a person ... who, though as good once as he ever was,is no longer as good as he once was.
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