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passive

გამოთქმა: /ˈpasɪv/

ზედსართავი

Universal
  • 1accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance:the women were portrayed as passive victims
  • 2 Grammar denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to the active form he killed them). The opposite of active.
  • 3(of a circuit or device) containing no source of electromotive force: a passive optical network is to be installed in 2000 homes
  • (of radar or a satellite) receiving or reflecting radiation from a transmitter or target rather than generating its own signal: passive sensors detect the emissions from enemy radar
  • (of a heating system) making use of incident sunlight as an energy source: bananas can be grown at the highest altitude using passive solar heating alone
  • 4 Chemistry (of a metal) made unreactive by a thin inert surface layer of oxide.

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Universal
  • a passive form of a verb.
  • (the passive) the passive voice.

passively

adverb

passiveness

noun

passivity

Pronunciation: /-ˈsɪvɪti/

noun

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