Definition of passing

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Passing (adv.) Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange..

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Hemisphere :: Hemisphere (n.) A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center..
Exuperant :: Exuperant (a.) Surpassing; exceeding; surmounting.
Fluework :: Fluework (n.) A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.
Right :: Right (a.) According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith..
Essential :: Essential (a.) Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones..
Glance :: Glance (n.) An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
Flatting :: Flatting (n.) The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls.
Regression :: Regression (n.) The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation.
Permeant :: Permeant (a.) Passing through; permeating.
Regressive :: Regressive (a.) Passing back; returning.
Communication :: Communication (n.) Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection.
Gradation :: Gradation (n.) A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing..
Incredible :: Incredible (a.) Not credible; surpassing belief; too extraordinary and improbable to admit of belief; unlikely; marvelous; fabulous.
Stria :: Stria (n.) A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain..
Epiglottis :: Epiglottis (n.) A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx.
Spica :: Spica (n.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley..
Transitive :: Transitive (a.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book..
Refract :: Refract (n.) To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium..
Discoursive :: Discoursive (a.) Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive.
Button :: Button (n.) A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament..
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