Definition of Bypass
Verb: bypass 'bI,pãs
- Avoid something unpleasant or laborious
"You cannot bypass these rules!";
- short-circuit, go around, get around
- A highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the centre
- beltway [N. Amer], ring road [Brit], ringway, ringroad [Brit]
- A surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
- A conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
- shunt, electrical shunt
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