Bypass

Quick meaning: Bypass is a noun meaning A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.

Meaning

A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.

More Meanings

1. A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
2. The act of going past or around.
3. A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
4. An electrical shunt.
5. To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
6. To ignore the usual channels or procedures.
7. (medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.

Example Sentences

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Datacasting bypasses the wired, terrestrial Internet and is a cheaper way to distribute software than pressing and mailing CDs.

Thanks to Brexit, many ferry companies now run direct from Ireland to the EU mainland, bypassing UK ports such as Fishguard, with an impact on traffic.

Five of the 16 patients required simultaneous FF bypass and iliaco-femoral bypass; 2, required simultaneous FF bypass and iliac thrombo-endoarterectomy (Table II).

Word Forms

• bypasses
• by-pass
• bypassing
• bypassed

Synonyms for bypass

Depending on context, synonyms include circumferential, go around.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include go around, circumferential, overtake, drift, jump, decking.

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