1. Avoid something unpleasant or laborious
   "You cannot bypass these rules!";
   - short-circuit, go around, get around, go round, get round

1. A highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the centre
   "The ringroad allowed commuters to bypass the congested city centre";
   - beltway [N. Amer], ring road [Brit], ringway, ringroad [Brit]
    
2. A surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
   "The heart bypass surgery redirected blood flow around the blocked artery"
    
3. A conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
   "An electrical bypass was used to protect the sensitive measuring equipment";
   - shunt, electrical shunt

Derived forms: bypassing, bypasses, bypassed

Type of: avoid, conductor, highway, main road, shunt

Part of: circuit, electric circuit, electrical circuit

Encyclopedia: Bypass