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Bypass
//ˈbaɪpæs// noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
- 2 a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center wordnet
- 3 A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
- 4 a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current wordnet
- 5 The act of going past or around.
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- 6 a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) wordnet
- 7 A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
- 8 An electrical shunt.
- 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 To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
- 2 avoid something unpleasant or laborious wordnet
- 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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