Pass

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

Places

• Pass, County Meath, a townland in Ireland
• Pass, Poland, a village in Poland
• El Paso, Texas, a city which translates to "The Pass"
• 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, a 1906 novel by Stewart Edward White
• "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 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
• pass, Python keyword for no-op
• pass, some sorts of transformation in compiler; see multi-pass compiler

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

For people in sport, see § People.

• 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)

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