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Passing may refer to:


Social identity

* Passing (sociology), presenting oneself as a member of another sociological group ** Passing (gender), presenting oneself as being cisgender ** Passing (racial identity), presenting oneself as a member of another race


Literature and film

* ''Passing'' (novel), a novel by Nella Larsen ** ''Passing'' (film), directed by Rebecca Hall (2021), based on Larsen's novel


Math and technology

* Message passing, a form of communication in computer science * Token passing, a channel access method in telecommunications *
Variational message passing Variational message passing (VMP) is an approximate inference technique for continuous- or discrete-valued Bayesian networks, with conjugate-exponential parents, developed by John Winn. VMP was developed as a means of generalizing the approximate v ...
, a mathematical technique for continuous-valued Bayesian networks


Sports

* Passing (sports), to pass a ball or puck between members of the same team ** Passing (American football) ** Passing (association football), or soccer * Passing (juggling), when two or more people share a juggling pattern


Transportation

* Passing, overtaking, the act of driving around a slower automobile * Passing lane, a lane on a road for use while overtaking * Passing loop, a section of railway where trains can pass each other


Other uses

* Buck passing, or passing the buck, transferring responsibility to another * Passing away, euphemism for " dying" * A syncope is an instance of passing out, also called fainting or losing consciousness * Passing off, in law, presenting one product as another * Passing, a type of metallic thread used in embroidery


See also

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Closeted ''Closeted'' and ''in the closet'' are metaphors for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and other (LGBTQ+) people who have not disclosed their sexual orientation or gender identity and aspects thereof, including sexual identity and human ...
(concealing one's sexual orientation or behavior) *
Pass (disambiguation) Pass, PASS, The Pass or Passed may refer to: Places * Pass, County Meath, a townland in Ireland * Pass, Poland, a village in Poland * Pass, an alternate term for a number of straits: see List of straits *Mountain pass, a lower place in a moun ...
* Passer (disambiguation) * The Passing (disambiguation) {{disambiguation