passive rate

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• Passive smoking — is the involuntary inhalation of smoke from tobacco products. It occurs when tobacco smoke permeates any environment, causing its inhalation by all people within that environment. Such smoke is called secondhand smoke (SHS) or environmental… …   Wikipedia

• Passive cooling — refers to technologies or design features used to cool buildings without power consumption, such as those technologies discussed in the Passive house project.Passive coolingThe term passive implies that energy consuming mechanical components like …   Wikipedia

• Passive radar — systems (also referred to as passive coherent location and passive covert radar) encompass a class of radar systems that detect and track objects by processing reflections from non cooperative sources of illumination in the environment, such as… …   Wikipedia

• rate-cap — rate caps, rate capping, rate capped 1) VERB: usu passive In Britain, when a local council was rate capped, the government prevented it from increasing local taxes called rates, in order to force the council to reduce its spending or make it more …   English dictionary

• Passive house — The term passive house ( Passivhaus in German) refers to the rigorous, voluntary, Passivhaus standard for energy use in buildings. It results in ultra low energy buildings that require little energy for space heating or cooling. [… …   Wikipedia

• Passive optical network — A passive optical network (PON) is a point to multipoint, fiber to the premises network architecture in which unpowered optical splitters are used to enable a single optical fiber to serve multiple premises, typically 32 128. A PON consists of an …   Wikipedia

• Passive Immunisierung — Eine Schutzimpfung. Zu sehen ist, wie der Impfstoff in den Deltamuskel gespritzt wird. Die Impfung ist eine vorbeugende Maßnahme gegen verschiedene Infektionskrankheiten und wird deshalb auch Schutzimpfung genannt. Man unterscheidet aktive… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Passive foreign investment company — Within taxation law of the USA, a passive foreign investment company (or PFIC ) is a foreign company with predominantly investment income, or whose assets are primarily intended to generate investment income. The Internal Revenue Service handles… …   Wikipedia

• rate — rate1 [ reıt ] noun count *** 1. ) the number of times something happens, or the number of examples of something within a particular period of time: a rising birth rate a dramatic fall in the city s murder rate rate of: The animals were dying at… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• rate — I UK [reɪt] / US noun Word forms rate : singular rate plural rates *** 1) [countable] the number of times something happens, or the number of examples of something within a particular period of time a rising birth rate a dramatic fall in the city …   English dictionary

• rate — [[t]re͟ɪt[/t]] ♦ rates, rating, rated 1) N COUNT: with supp The rate at which something happens is the speed with which it happens. The rate at which hair grows can be agonisingly slow... The world s tropical forests are disappearing at an even… …   English dictionary