Definition of "bypass"
- noun
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.
An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
- verb
To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
To ignore the usual channels or procedures.
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