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関連する語

• may I pass through
• passer-through

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名詞

pass through (plural pass throughs)

1. (US) A framed, window-like aperture in the interior wall of a house, usually between a kitchen and dining room, through which items (especially food) can be passed. A serving hatch.

語源

Deverbal from pass through.

名詞

passthrough (countable and uncountable, plural passthroughs)

1. The act or process of passing through.
   1. (electronics, networking) As of a signal through a device or network.
   2. (business, economics) As of increased costs through a business entity to its customers through increased prices.

      The airlines called the fuel surcharge a passthrough, but did not rescind it until well after fuel prices had returned to previous levels.

      • 1976 August 21, A. Nolder Gay, “Another View”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 8, page 4:

        Boston's projected $50 to $70 per thousand jump in the property tax rate, which will hit gays, poor and blacks alike with about an 8% pass-through rent increase this year.

   3. (computing) Allowing the use of some resource unchanged from one system to another.

      GPU passthrough

      allowing the direct use of a GPU in a guest virtual machine

      passthrough shader

      a shader that applies no transformations to the input data, leaving it as-is

2. A wall opening intended to allow something to be passed through it.
3. (taxation) A legal entity intended to not incur (income) taxation at the entity, but solely at the beneficiaries.

   Synonym: flowthrough

   Partnerships, limited-liability companies, and Subchapter S corporations are the main US passthroughs.