Pass
Appearance
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Pass, PASS, The Pass or Passed may refer to:
Places
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- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Computing
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Pass (sleight of hand), a sleight of hand move
- Performer Availability Screening Services, a U.S. STI screening database