Pass

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

• The Pass (psychoanalysis), a procedure for investigating the results of a psychoanalysis.
• Pass, an overtaking manoeuvre
• Pass, in a game, to decline an opportunity or turn at play or allow the game to continue without one's acting in this round of play,
  • in Contract bridge, to make no bid when it is one's turn to bid
• Pass (legislature), the action of approving a proposed law
• Pass (sleight of hand), a sleight of hand move
• Fish pass or fish ladder, a construction allowing migrating fish to pass an obstruction on a stream
• 'Pass' for an ordinary degree in the British undergraduate degree classification

Admission

• Ticket (admission)
• Backstage pass, allows admission to backstage areas of a performance venue
• Press pass, grants special privilege or access to journalists
• Season Pass

Travel

• Pass (military), permission for military personnel to be away from their unit
• Hall pass, a token allowing a pupil to leave the classroom during school
• Transit pass, permitting travel, including
  • Boarding pass, allows a passenger to board an aircraft
  • Continent pass, a pass allowing air travel within a continent
  • E-ZPass, an electronic toll-collection system in the United States
  • Eurail pass, issued by Eurail Group for trains and buses in Europe
  • I-Pass, an electronic toll-collection system used in Illinois
  • Indrail Pass, a railway pass for Indian railways
• Pass laws, apartheid laws in South Africa which limited movement for some people
• U-Pass (disambiguation)

Computing

• Platform as a service, usually spelled PaaS, a category of cloud computing services

Places

• Mountain pass, a lower place in a mountain range allowing easier passage
• Pass, the name of a number of straits: see List of straits
• Pass, Poland

People

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

Sports and games

• Pass (ice hockey), the movement of the puck from one player to another
• Forward pass, in American and Canadian football
• Lateral pass or onside pass, in American and Canadian football respectively
• Pass, in rugby football: see Rugby passes (disambiguation)
• Pass, in basketball: see Basketball pass
• Passing (association football)
• "The Pass", the nickname for the 1996 CART Monterey Grand Prix

Acronyms

• PASS Sample Size Software, a computer program for estimating sample size
• Proof of Age Standards Scheme, an age identification program in the U.K.
• Peer-Assisted Study Sessions, an academic support program often used in higher education
• Professional Association for SQL Server, a global Microsoft SQL Server community group
• Pro-Am Sports System, or PASS Sports, a former Detroit-area cable television channel
• PASS device, a personal safety device used by firefighters entering a hazardous environment
• Plasma Acoustic Shield System, a disorientating weapon based on plasma explosions
• Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive Theory, learning/intelligence model
• Performer Availability Screening Services, a U.S. STI screening database

Other

• "The Pass" (song), a song by the band Rush
• Pass Labs, an audio company based in Foresthill, California, USA
• Pass Plus, a United Kingdom scheme to improve driving skills among young drivers
• Passed (band), a Hungarian band formed in the summer of 2014

See also

• Passer (disambiguation)
• Passing (disambiguation)
• Passage (disambiguation)
• Bypass (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "Pass"
  • First pass effect, a phenomenon of drug metabolism
  • Half-pass, a movement in dressage, in which the horse moves forward and sideways at the same time
  • Mountain pass theorem, an existence theorem from the calculus of variations
  • Pass by catastrophe, the concept that a disaster in an examination leads to all the students passing
  • Pass band or Passband, the range of frequencies that can pass through an electronic filter without being attenuated
  • Motion to pass on, a dilatory motion used in legislative procedure
  • Perfect Pass, a digital precision speed control system for power boats
  • "Make a pass at", an expression for flirting
  • Passing (racial identity), choosing to identify with a racial heritage group other than that assigned by social prejudice
  • Pass the Buck (disambiguation)