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passbys

passbys is the plural of passby.

Meaning of passby

Noun

passby (plural passbys)

  1. An instance of one thing passing by another.
    • […] a passby of a moving source. One must be careful to distinguish these from certain measures of total sound exposure received from a moving source during a passby event.1991, Harvey H. Hubbard, Aeroacoustics of Flight Vehicles: Noise control, page 55
  2. A siding for coal tubs.

Questions about passbys

What is passbys the plural of?
Passbys is the plural of passby.

Words near passbys in the dictionary

  1. passbook
  2. passbooks
  3. passby
  4. passbye
  5. passbyes
  6. passbys
  7. passcard
  8. passcards
  9. Passchendaele
  10. passcode
  11. passcoded

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