bypass
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
bypass (plural 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
TranslationsEdit
road
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circumvention
section of pipe
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electrical shunt
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alternative passage for a bodily fluid
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VerbEdit
bypass (third-person singular simple present bypasses, present participle bypassing, simple past and past participle bypassed)
- to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass
- to ignore the usual channels or procedures
TranslationsEdit
to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass
to ignore the usual channels or procedures
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