| passing note or (US) passing tone | |
| —n | |
| music Compare auxiliary note a nonharmonic note through which a melody passes from one harmonic note to the next | |
| passing tone or (US) passing tone | |
| —n | |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |