Pass


Pass


Pass, PASS, The Pass or Passed may refer to:

Places

  • Pass, County Meath, a townland in Ireland
  • Pass, Poland, a village in Poland
  • Pass, an alternate term for a number of straits: see List of straits
  • Mountain pass, a lower place in a mountain range allowing easier passage

Permissions

  • Pass (military), permission for military personnel to be away from their unit
  • Backstage pass, allows admission to backstage areas of a performance venue
  • Press pass, grants special privilege or access to journalists
  • Season ticket, or season pass
  • Ticket (admission), also called a pass
  • Transit pass, permitting travel, including:
    • Boarding pass, allows a passenger to board an aircraft
    • Continent pass, a pass allowing air travel within a continent

People

  • A Pass (born 1987), Ugandan musician
  • Frank Alexander de Pass, English soldier, first Jewish recipient of the Victoria Cross in World War I
  • Joe Pass (1929–1994), American jazz musician
  • John Pass (engraver) (c.1783–1832), English engraver
  • John Pass (poet) (born 1947), British-born Canadian poet
  • Nelson Pass (born 1951), American designer of audio amplifiers
  • Patrick Pass (born 1977), American football player

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Battle pass, a type of monetization and reward system in video games
  • Pass (cards), to make no bid when it is one's turn to do so
  • A type of card manipulation in close-up magic
  • Passed (band), a Hungarian band formed in the summer of 2014
  • "The Pass" (song), a song by the band Rush, from their 1989 album Presto
  • The Pass (1988 film), a Soviet animated short film
  • The Pass (2016 film), a film by Ben A. Williams based on the play by John Donnelly about football and homosexuality
  • Pro-Am Sports System, or PASS Sports, a former Detroit-area cable television channel

Businesses and organizations

  • The Pass Casino in Henderson, Nevada, United States
  • Pass Labs, an audio company based in Foresthill, California, United States
  • Professional Association for SQL Server, a global Microsoft SQL Server community group
  • Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, an AFL–CIO affiliated union

Education

  • Pass, a term used in grading to indicate a student has successfully completed academic requirements
  • Peer-Assisted Study Sessions, an academic support program often used in higher education

Law and government

  • Pass (legislature), the action of approving a proposed law
  • Pass laws, apartheid laws in South Africa which limited the movement of some people
  • Pass Plus, a UK scheme to improve driving skills among young drivers
  • Palmetto Assessment of State Standards (PASS), a standardized test taken in South Carolina, USA
  • Proof of Age Standards Scheme (PASS), an age identification program in the UK

Science and technology

Computing

  • Pass (software), a command line based password manager for Unix systems
  • PASS Sample Size Software, a computer program for estimating sample size
  • Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive Theory, a learning and intelligence model
  • Platform as a service, usually spelled PaaS, a category of cloud computing services

Other uses in science and technology

  • Pass (spaceflight), the period in which a satellite or other spacecraft is visible above the local horizon
  • PASS device, a personal safety device used by firefighters entering a hazardous environment
  • Plasma Acoustic Shield System, a disorientating weapon based on plasma explosions
  • The Pass (psychoanalysis), a procedure

Sport

  • Pass (ice hockey), the movement of the puck from one player to another
  • Basketball pass
  • Forward pass, in American and Canadian football
  • Lateral pass or onside pass, in American and Canadian football respectively
  • Passing (association football)
  • Pro All Stars Series, a super late model racing series
  • Rugby passes (disambiguation)
  • "The Pass", nickname for the 1996 CART Monterey Grand Prix

Other uses

  • Pass (sleight of hand), a sleight of hand move
  • Performer Availability Screening Services, a U.S. STI screening database

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Pass
  • Bypass (disambiguation)
  • Passage (disambiguation)
  • Passer (disambiguation)
  • Passing (disambiguation)
  • Success (concept)

Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: Pass by Wikipedia (Historical)



 

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