passthrough

passthrough (countable and uncountable, plural passthroughs)

The act or process of passing through.
1. (electronics, networking) As of a signal through a device or network.
2. (business, economics) 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.
  - 1976 August 21, A. Nolder Gay, “Another View”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 8, page 4:
    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.
3. (computing) Allowing the use of some resource unchanged from one system to another.
  GPU passthrough
  allowing the direct use of a GPU in a guest virtual machine
  
  passthrough shader
  a shader that applies no transformations to the input data, leaving it as-is
A wall opening intended to allow something to be passed through it.
(taxation) A legal entity intended to not incur (income) taxation at the entity, but solely at the beneficiaries.
Synonym: flowthrough

Partnerships, limited-liability companies, and Subchapter S corporations are the main US passthroughs.

The act of passing through

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