• success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his Passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"
• going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it; "she drove but well but her reckless Passing of every car on the road frightened me"
• (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a Passing play on third and long"
• a bodily process of Passing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the Passing of flatus"
• the end of something; "the Passing of winter"
• the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar Passings can perturb the orbits of comets"
• euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his Passing"
• enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a Passing fancy"; "youth''s transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"
• to an extreme degree or extent; "his eyesight was exceedingly defective"

'Passing' in other languages