Look up: Passive

1. passive
   [adj] - peacefully resistant in response to injustice 2. [adj] - (grammar) passive voice 3. [adj] - lacking in energy or will
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2. Passive
   Movement is not brought about by the person’s own efforts. Instead another person, e.g., a physiotherapist, moves the parts of the body in question. This can be used to keep muscles and joints working in people with nerve problems that prevent voluntary movement, such as in spinal cord injury.
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3. Passive
   A circuit with no active elements.
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4. Passive
   an instrument’s electronics which has no power source (like a 9 volt battery) or active circuitry
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5. passive
   (1) A metal corroding under the control of a surface reaction product. (2) The state of the metal surface characterized by low corrosion rates in a potential region that is strongly oxidizing for the metal. (3) The state of a metal when its behavior is much more noble than its position in the EMF series would predict. This is a surface phenomena.
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6. Passive
   see active
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7. passive
   a style of investment management where no active fund management is taking place Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs • the passive or inactive voice occurs in a sentence in which the grammatical subject of the verb is the goal or sufferer of the action expressed by the verb Category: Language and literature
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8. Passive
   Pas"sive adjective [ Latin passivus : confer French passif . See Passion .] 1. Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene. « The passive air Upbore their nimble tread.» Milton. « The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all …
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9. passive
   Neither spontaneous nor active, not produced by active efforts. ... Origin: L. Passivus ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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10. passive
    peaceful adjective peacefully resistant in response to injustice; `passive resistance`
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11. Passive
    `Passive` is the opposite of active. It has several specific meanings: * Passive voice of a verb * Passive components in electronics * Passive mode in File Transfer Protocol * Passive house, a standard for energy efficient buildings * The passive partner in a sexual activity * `Passive` (song), by A Perfect Circle from their album eMOTIVe * Not affecting physical matter ** as in telepathy: see Psionics#Passive
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12. Passive
    `Passive` is the opposite of active. It has several specific meanings: * Passive voice of a verb * Passive components in electronics * Passive mode in File Transfer Protocol * Passive house, a standard for energy efficient buildings * The passive partner in a sexual activity * `Passive` (song), by A Perfect Circle from their album eMOTIVe * Not affecting physical matter ** as in telepathy: see Psionics#Passive
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13. passive
    (pas´iv) neither spontaneous nor active; not produced by active efforts.
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14. Passive
    • (a.) Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission. • (a.) Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive. • (a.) Designating certain morbid conditions,...
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15. passive
    (L. passivus) neither spontaneous nor active; not produced by active efforts.
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16. passive
    passive 1. Influenced or acted upon without exerting influence or acting in return; offering no opposition or resistance; receiving or enduring without resistance; submissive; unassertive, compliant. 2. Acted upon by an external agency; receptive to outside impressions or influences without resistance.
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17. Passive
    Income or loss from business activities in which a person does not materially participate, such as a limited partnership.
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18. Passive
    Not active. A passive crossover uses no external power and results in insertion loss. A passive speaker is one without internal amplification.
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19. passive
    qualifies a circuit element or a circuit for which the time integral of the instantaneous power cannot be negative over any time interval beginning at an instant before the first supply of electric energy NOTE 1 - Under periodic conditions, the integration interval can comprise an integral number of periods instead of beginning at minus infinity. N...
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20. passive
    pertaining to an electrical network or device which functions without any source of energy other than the input signals
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