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noun (bypasses)
- a road that passes around something, such as a residential area
- a circumvention
- a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture
- an electrical shunt
- (medicine) an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass
verb (bypass, es)
- to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass
- to ignore the usual channels or procedures
Etymology: by + pass
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