Passing
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| complicated | complicated passing | complicated transit |
| nuclear | nuclear passing | nuclear transit |
Both words in one sentence
- Gratuitous Latin: While lamenting the passing of Summer and the return of school, the children sing the phrase "Sic transit gloria mundi" which translates to "Thus passes the glory of the world".
Source: Theatre / Anne of Green Gables - And to reach the place you have to transit through the Great Nebula, where the locals treat you as an invader in spite of being just passing through and willing to leave without damaging anything.
Source: Invading Refugees -
Pulse oximeters evaluate a person's oxygen saturation by passing paired beams of light through the subject's fingertip to a photodetector, then calculating how much light from each beam - one the color of oxygenated blood, the other lacking that hue - was blocked in transit.
Source: Vein-O-Vision
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