What is "passives"

Usage examples of "passives".

Miranda recognized her, from old passives she'd seen on the mediatron, as an American teenager from the previous century.

It was a thing she'd seen people use in the old passives, a thing she'd seen when Mom's old boyfriend Brad had taken her to visit the horse barn in Dovetail.

The passives of that era were so fun to watch, with their big, stupid cars and big, stupid guns and big, stupid people.

So if we're not spotting them with our shipboard passives, let's put a few more drones of our own out there to hunt for them.

It no longer really matter how good the shuttle's passives were, because the seekers in the missiles themselves had the Peeps now.

They don't exactly encourage through traffic to use active sensors in areas like this, and there are limits to what merchant-grade passives can pick up.