bypass
- Noun. a road that passes around something, such as a residential area.
- Noun. a circumvention.
- Noun. a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
- Noun. an electrical shunt.
- Noun. (medicine) 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.
- Verb. to ignore the usual channels or procedures.
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