by-pass
noun
Meaning
- 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
- An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass
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