passing

passing
passingly, adv.passingness, n.
/pas"ing, pah"sing/, adj.
1. going by or past; elapsing: He was feeling better with each passing day.
2. brief, fleeting, or fortuitous; transitory: to take a passing fancy to something.
3. done, given, etc., in passing; cursory: a passing mention.
4. surpassing, preeminent, or extreme.
5. indicating satisfactory performance in a course, on a paper, in a test, etc.: a passing grade on a test.
adv.
6. surpassingly; exceedingly; very.
n.
7. the act of a person or thing that passes or causes something to pass.
8. a means or place of passage.
9. in passing, by the way; incidentally: The speaker mentioned his latest book in passing.
[1275-1325; ME; see PASS, -ING2, -ING1]

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