What does "pass" mean in "VKRenderPass"?

I have been thinking about the meanings of names of objects in Vulkan since I started learning it.

Most of objects and operations in Vulkan have self-documented names, so I could know how things work.

However, I just can not fully understand what “VKRenderPass” means by its name.

If somebody has a name “Tom”, I will respect it and call him “Tom” whatever it means.

But if an api function has a name “Tom”, I can not help guessing “T” for “T-shirt”, “o” for “honest”, “m” for “math”…

To me, “pass” is more like a dynamic operation rather than a static object.

If “pass” can be replaced by some other words, what would them be?

“ticket”? “go”? “once”?

Looking at it as an object, anything tends not to sound good anyway.