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51Passive obedience — is a political/religious doctrine advocating the absolute supremacy of the Crown and the treatment of any dissent (or more precisely, disobedience) as sinful and unlawful. It was usually associated with the seventeenth century Church of England… …
52Passive intellect — is a term used in both psychology and philosophy.PsychologyPassive intellect (more properly, passive knowledge) is the psychological concept of knowledge that is not being actively used (as opposed to active knowledge). For example, if you simply …
53Passive Resistance (Hungary) — Passive Resistance ( passzív ellenállás ) is a name attributed to an era of Hungarian politics in the 19th century. Passive resistance, i.e. the reluctance of any notable and prestigious personalities to take any position or office or to… …
54Passive Sterbehilfe — ist das Nichtergreifen oder Nichtfortführen lebenserhaltender Maßnahmen aus ethischen, medizinischen und humanitären Gründen bei nichteinwilligungsfähigen Personen, bei denen vorbereitende Gespräche nicht möglich waren oder keine… …
55Passive management — (also called passive investing) is a financial strategy in which a fund manager makes as few portfolio decisions as possible, in order to minimize transaction costs, including the incidence of capital gains tax. One popular method is to mimic the …
56Passive hydroponics — Passive hydroponics, semi hydroponics or passive subirrigation is a method of growing plants without soil, peat moss, or bark. Instead an inert porous medium transports water and fertilizer to the roots by capillary action. Water and fertilizer… …
57passive foreign investment company — (PFIC) USA A foreign corporation is a PFIC for any taxable year in which either at least: • 75% of its gross income is passive income (as defined in IRC § 1297(b)); or • 50%, on average and generally by value, of its assets (determined under …
58Passive transport — means moving biochemicals and other atomic or molecular substances across membranes. Unlike active transport, this process does not involve chemical energy, because, unlike in an active transport, the transport across membrane is always coupled… …
59Passive-aggressive notes — is a website that documents painfully polite and hilariously hostile notes from shared spaces the world over. Most of these notes are found in shared apartments, offices, apartment buildings and stores. Passive Aggressive Notes is similar to… …
60passive-aggressive — adj being, marked by, or displaying behavior characterized by expression of negative feelings, resentment, and aggression in an unassertive way (as through procrastination, stubbornness, and unwillingness to communicate) <a passive aggressive… …
