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n. A highway or section of a highway that passes around an obstructed or congested area.

n. A pipe or channel used to conduct gas or liquid around another pipe or a fixture.

n. A means of circumvention.

n. Electricity See shunt.

n. Medicine An alternative passage created surgically to divert the flow of blood or other bodily fluid or circumvent an obstructed or diseased organ.

n. Medicine A surgical procedure to create such a channel: a coronary artery bypass; a gastric bypass.

v. To avoid (an obstacle) by using an alternative channel, passage, or route.

v. To be heedless of; ignore: bypassed standard office procedures.

v. To channel (piped liquid, for example) through a bypass.

n. a road that passes around something, such as a residential area

n. a circumvention

n. a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture

n. an electrical shunt

n. an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass

v. to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass

v. to ignore the usual channels or procedures

"First of all, the need for a bypass is a no-brainer."

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