Dictionary Definition
bypass
Noun
1 a road that takes traffic around the edge of a
town [syn: circumferential,
ring
road]
2 a surgically created shunt (usually around a
damaged part)
3 a conductor having low resistance in parallel
with another device to divert a fraction of the current [syn:
shunt, electrical
shunt] v : avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot
bypass these rules!" [syn: short-circuit,
go
around, get around]
[also: bypast]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- 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
Translations
a road that passes around something
- Finnish: ohikulkutie
- German: Umgehungsstraße
a circumvention
- Finnish: kiertäminen
- German: Umgehung
a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around
some other fixture
- Finnish: sivuputki
an electrical shunt
an alternative passage created to divert a
bodily fluid around a damaged organ
- Finnish: ohitusleikkaus
- German: Bypass
- ttbc Spanish: derivación f
Verb
Translations
to ignore the usual channels or procedures
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Bypass may refer to: Bypass (slang)(digestive),
where gas is expelled through anus during the event of a voluntary
fecal restriction, thus the gas bypassed through the fecal matter
and released via anus.
- Bypass (road), road or highway that goes around a more congested or problematic area
- Bypass
(surgical), creating an alternate route for blood flow or food
- Bypass surgery, specific types of surgical bypass
- Bypass (telecommunications), multiple meanings
- Bypass (valve), in diving, a valve in rebreathers to bypass the flow rate control valve
- Bypass duct, passage in turbofan aircraft engines that allows airflow to bypass the engine core
- Bleach bypass, in film processing, an optical effect reducing saturation, increasing contrast, and giving a pastel look
- Bypass (computing), in computing, circumventing security features in hacking, or taking a different approach to an issue in troubleshooting
- Bypass (effect), in effects units, a switch that allows sound processing to be "turned off" to get a "dry", unprocessed sound output
bypass in Czech: Obchvat
bypass in German: Bypass
bypass in Spanish: Bypass
bypass in Italian: Bypass
bypass in Dutch: Bypass
bypass in Japanese: バイパス
bypass in Simple English: Bypass
bypass in Chinese: 分流
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, ambages, arterial, arterial highway,
arterial street, artery,
autoroute, autostrada, avenue, avoid, back door, back road, back
stairs, back street, back way, belt highway, bestride, blind alley, boulevard, burke, by-lane, bypath, byroad, bystreet, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circuit, circumbendibus, circumferential,
circumnavigate,
circumvent, close, corduroy road, county road,
court, crescent, cross, cul-de-sac, dead-end
street, detour, deviate, deviation, digress, digression, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, evade, excursion, expressway, ford, freeway, get ahead of, get
round, give the go-by, go across, go around, go by, go round, go
round about, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways,
ignore, interstate
highway, lane, local road,
main drag, main road, make a detour, mews, motorway, overstride, parkway, pass, pass by, pass over, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, primary
highway, private road, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, roundabout, roundabout way,
route nationale, row, royal
road, secondary road, shoot ahead of, side door, side road, side
street, sidestep,
skirt, speedway, state highway, step
over, straddle,
street, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through
street, thruway, toll
road, township road, turnpike, wynd