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Abstract-This brief presents a necessary and sufficient condition for testing positive, real, imaginary, and negative rational functions. A related term, the positive, imaginary, and negative polynomial, is defined and two necessary and sufficient conditions for testing it are given. Index Terms-Hurwitz polynomials, positive, imaginary, and negative (PIN ) polynomials, positive, real, imaginary, and negative (PRIN ) property, PRIN rational functions.