Bypass

//ˈbaɪpæs// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
  2. 2
    a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center wordnet
  3. 3
    A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
  4. 4
    a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current wordnet
  5. 5
    The act of going past or around.
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  1. 6
    a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) wordnet
  2. 7
    A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
  3. 8
    An electrical shunt.
  4. 9
    An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.

    "Five of the 16 patients required simultaneous FF bypass and iliaco-femoral bypass; 2, required simultaneous FF bypass and iliac thrombo-endoarterectomy (Table II)."

Verb
  1. 1
    To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
  2. 2
    avoid something unpleasant or laborious wordnet
  3. 3
    To ignore the usual channels or procedures.

    "More to theyr proper Elements inaugurated none, / Than ſhee to hers by-paſſed, he to his poſſeſſed Throne."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English *bypassen, *bipassen (suggested by past participle by-past, bipast), equivalent to by- + pass.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *bypassen, *bipassen (suggested by past participle by-past, bipast), equivalent to by- + pass.

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