0 a usually long and narrow part of a building with rooms on one or both sides, or a covered path that connects places: --
1 a short piece of writing or music that is part of a larger piece of work: --
2 travel, especially as a way of escape: --
He had booked his passage to Rio de Janeiro.
The gunman demanded a plane and safe passage to an unspecified destination.
3 an act of moving through somewhere: --
The government prohibits the passage of foreign troops and planes across its territory.
Many meteors disintegrate during their passage through the atmosphere.
5 the official approval of something, especially a new law: --
He again urged passage of a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion.
In this test, the administrator reads a passage aloud to the participant.
To avoid passage in cell culture and the possible selection of atypical populations, the virus isolates were not plaque purified in cell culture.
In some sonatas the texture is varied by woodwind doublings of strings with flute or oboe, alternating with solo passages for different groups.
It is, however, the two central sections that are perhaps the most remarkable passages in the piece, particularly in the writing for the solo bassoon.
This passage is somewhat confusing because it is not clear how one should understand the expression "altruistic act" appearing within it.
However, the time to peak parasitaemias was significantly reduced when the number of prior passages was increased.
As this passage demonstrates, the position of the teacher vis-à-vis the student not only equals but exceeds that of his parents.
The passage evokes a gendered division between author and reader, differentiating the "real man" author from the woman that he addresses.