passthrough
nounEtymology Deverbal from pass through.
› The act or process of passing through.
Business, Computing, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Networking, Physical sciences, Physics, Sciences As of a signal through a device or network.
Business, Economics, Sciences As of increased costs through a business entity to its customers through increased prices.
- The airlines called the fuel surcharge a passthrough, but did not rescind it until well after fuel prices had returned to previous levels.
- Boston's projected $50 to $70 per thousand jump in the property tax rate, which will hit gays, poor and blacks alike with about an 8% pass-through rent increase this year.1976 August 21, A. Nolder Gay, “Another View”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 8, page 4:
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Allowing the use of some resource unchanged from one system to another.
- GPU passthrough
- passthrough shader
A wall opening intended to allow something to be passed through it.
Economics, Government, Sciences, Taxation A legal entity intended to not incur (income) taxation at the entity, but solely at the beneficiaries.
- Partnerships, limited-liability companies, and Subchapter S corporations are the main US passthroughs.