Noun: passive
| Singular | passive |
| Plural | passives |
Sample Sentences
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If you want to improve your organization's NPS, you need to follow up with your detractors, passives, and promoters to understand why they answered your question as they did and what you can do better in the future. [2014, Roy Barnes, Bob Kelleher, Customer Experience For Dummies, page 266:]
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Reductions In Both Size And Weight Offered By Integrated Passives
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You may not know it yet, but if you're like most consumers, you want integrated passives. [2001, The Virginia Engineer, volume 50, page 20:]
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The components include active devices such as logic, memory, processors, etc.; passives such as capacitors, resistors, crystal oscillators, inductances, etc.; […] [2010, Sridhar Canumalla, Puligandla Viswanadham, Portable Consumer Electronics: Packaging, Materials, and Reliability:]
Nouns inflected like passive
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English passyf, passyve, from Middle French, French passif, from Latin passivus (“serving to express the suffering of an action; in late Latin literally capable of suffering or feeling”), from passus, past participle of pati (“to suffer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”); compare patient. See: Middle English Nouns '
passyf', French Nouns '
passif', Latin Nouns '
passivus'.