passive source
- noun
- Specialized
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fuente pasiva
- Traffic engineers used data from roadside sensors as a passive source to study congestion patterns.
Examples
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The analysts treated social media posts as a passive source of insights for market trends.
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Because APIs limited access, researchers relied on public comments as a passive source of user opinions.
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A passive source can provide unexpected insights.
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Social media acts as a passive source of information.
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The analysts treated social media posts as a passive source of insights for market trends.
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Traffic engineers used data from roadside sensors as a passive source to study congestion patterns.
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Researchers relied on public comments as a passive source to gather insights about user opinions.
How Active
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is compositionally regular: 'passive' (inactive/not actively responding) modifies 'source' (provider of information), so a learner who knows both words can infer a source that does not actively push or respond with data. Although used in a technical context, the meaning is directly derivable from the constituents and follows a common modifier+noun pattern familiar across languages.
Etymology
Passive source can be pictured as a device or place that gives information by itself, where passive means not active and source means where information comes from. So it means 'a source of data that provides information without being actively asked'.