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passthought

passthought noun: a thought used to gain admittance or access to something.

Noun

passthought (plural passthoughts)

  1. A thought used to gain admittance or access to something.
    • You step outside, locking your door and activating your home security system merely by visualising an image - it could be the colour of your lover's eyes, an oak leaf, or the hamster you had when you were six - in a biometric passthought keyed to your unique brainwave pattern.2008, Nick Sagan, Mark Frary, & Andy Walker, Future Proof: The Greatest Gadgets and Gizmos Ever Imagined, Thriplow, →ISBN, page 6
    • “It seems Zambini is locked into a spell with a passthought on auto-evolve; it changes randomly every two minutes. One moment it's all about swans on a lake at sunset, the next, spoonbills in the Orinoco delta. […]2011, Jasper Fforde, The Song of the Quarkbeast, Harcourt, →ISBN, page 212

Forms of passthought

pluralpassthoughts

Origin of passthought

From pass + thought, after the pattern of password.

Questions about passthought

What does passthought mean?
Passthought means a thought used to gain admittance or access to something.
What part of speech is passthought?
Passthought is a noun.
What is the plural of passthought?
The plural of passthought is passthoughts.

Words near passthought in the dictionary

  1. passportless
  2. passportlessness
  3. passports
  4. passroll
  5. passrolls
  6. passthought
  7. passthoughts
  8. passthrough
  9. passthroughs
  10. passthru
  11. passtime

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