All 20 Uses
passive
in
The Hunt for Red October
(Auto-generated)
- Have the sonarmen listen on all passive systems.†
Chpt 1. *
- After a week of following the model around the north end of the Caspian Sea in an electrically powered launch, trailing the best passive sonar array his country had yet made, he thought he had found a flaw.†
Chpt 2.
- At any speed over twenty knots both her passive and active sonar, including the echofathometer, became almost useless.†
Chpt 5.
- The dome was used for both active and passive operations.†
Chpt 5.
- A new part of the system was a gang of passive sensors which extended two hundred feet down both sides of the hull.†
Chpt 5.
- Jones referred to the towed array of passive sensors the Dallas was trailing behind her at low speed.†
Chpt 5.
- The Alfas had no way of knowing she was there and that they would be easy targets for her weapons, the more so since the patrolling Orion had fed the Pogy exact range information, something that ordinarily takes time to deduce from a passive sonar plot.†
Chpt 8.
- Each Orion carried sonobuoys, air-deployable active and passive sonar sets that were dropped from the belly of the aircraft.†
Chpt 10.
- They were tracking the Forgers with passive systems only, in this case an infrared sensor.†
Chpt 10.
- Even his targeting radar was switched off, and only passive infrared and low-light television sensors were operating.†
Chpt 11.
- The Dallas also had to remain invisible to her quarry's passive sonar systems.†
Chpt 12.
- Boomers are fat on passive sonar.†
Chpt 12.
- He's deep, and their passive sonars are not as good as ours.†
Chpt 12.
- Jones hesitated for a moment, still reading the reactor plant noise on his passive systems.†
Chpt 13.
- The passive systems he didn't want to think about.†
Chpt 17.
- Using passive sonar was the normal routine in such a case.†
Chpt 17.
- The active sonar isn't too bad, but the passive stuft just isn't up to the drill, Skipper.†
Chpt 17.
- His active pings were reflected back by the cloud of bubbles, and his passive listening ability was greatly reduced by the recurring rumbles.†
Chpt 17.
- I can track her on passive, sir.†
Chpt 17.
- Enough that I can read passive," Sonar Chief Palmer said.†
Chpt 17.
Definitions:
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(1)
(passive as in: she remained passive) accepting what happens without trying to take control or reacting strongly
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(2)
(passive as in: written using the passive voice) grammar: where the subject receives the action rather than doing it"The dog chased the cat." is written in the active voice where the dog is doing the action. "The cat was chased by the dog" is written in the passive voice where the cat is receiving the action.
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More specialized senses of the word are found in chemistry, physics, electronics, and communications. All senses have to do with inactivity.