bypass

also n.

1. A highway or section of a highway that passes around an obstructed or congested area.
2. A pipe or channel used to conduct gas or liquid around another pipe or a fixture.
3. A means of circumvention.
4. Electricity. See shunt (sense 3).
5. Medicine.
   1. An alternative passage created surgically to divert the flow of blood or other bodily fluid or circumvent an obstructed or diseased organ.
   2. A surgical procedure to create such a channel: a coronary artery bypass; a gastric bypass.

tr.v., -passed, also -passed, -pass·ing, -pass·ing, -pass·es, -pass·es.

1. To avoid (an obstacle) by using an alternative channel, passage, or route.
2. To be heedless of; ignore: bypassed standard office procedures.
3. To channel (piped liquid, for example) through a bypass.

In communications, to avoid the local telephone company by using satellites and microwave systems.

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noun

The act, an instance, or a means of avoiding: avoidance, circumvention, escape, evasion. See seek/avoid.

verb

1. To pass around but not through: circumnavigate, circumvent, detour, go around, skirt. See seek/avoid.
2. To keep away from: avoid, burke, circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, get around, shun. Idioms: fight shy of, give a wide berth to, have no truck with, keepstaysteerclear of. See seek/avoid.

Any device (such as a pipe or duct) for directing flow around an element instead of through it.

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An auxiliary flow; a shunt; a surgically created pathway circumventing the normal anatomical pathway, as an intestinal bypass.

• cardiopulmonary b. — diversion of the flow of blood from the entrance to the right atrium directly to the aorta, usually via a pump oxygenator, avoiding both the heart and the lungs; a form of extracorporeal circulation used mainly in experimental animals in the investigation of cardiac prosthetic devices. Called also CPB.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - omkørselsvej, omfartsvej
v. tr. - omgå, gå uden om, føre uden om

Nederlands (Dutch)
ringweg, omleiding, omloopkanaal, bypass, links laten liggen, vermijden, een bypass leggen om

Français (French)
n. - périphérique, route ou bretelle de contournement, (Tech) conduit de dérivation, (Élec) dérivation, (Méd) pontage
v. tr. - contourner, éviter, éviter d'utiliser, se passer de, omettre, contourner (des lois)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Umgehungsstraße, (Med.) Bypass
v. - umleiten, umgehen, (Elek.) überbrücken

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - παρακαμπτήρια οδός, (ιατρ.) στεφανιαία παράκαμψη, μπαϊπάς

Italiano (Italian)
circonvallazione, tangenziale

Português (Portuguese)
n. - passagem (f) secundária, circuito (m) secundário (Eletr.), desvio (m) (Med.)

Русский (Russian)
объезд, обход, шунтирование

Español (Spanish)
n. - carretera de circunvalación, puente coronario
v. tr. - evitar, hacer un puente coronario, circunvalar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - förbikoppling, bypass

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
旁路, 支路, 省略, 忽视, 绕过

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 旁路, 支路
v. tr. - 省略, 忽視, 繞過

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 우회로, 바이패스(음성 정보따위를 기존 전화 회선 이외의 통신 모체로 전달하는 것)
v. tr. - ~을 우회하다, ~를 회피하다, ~을 앞지르다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 自動車用迂回路, バイパス, 側路
v. - 迂回する, 無視する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تحويله‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כביש עוקף, מעקף, תעלה או צינור חלופיים‬
v. tr. - ‮עקף, התעלם מ-, בנה מעקף‬

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