bypass

plural bypasses · alternative by-pass

1. A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
2. A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
3. The act of going past or around.
4. A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
5. An electrical shunt.
6. medicineAn alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.

   Five of the 16 patients required simultaneous FF bypass and iliaco-femoral bypass; 2, required simultaneous FF bypass and iliac thrombo-endoarterectomy (Table II).

   1989, Antonio Strano, Salvatore Novo, editors, Advances in Vascular Pathology 1989: Proceedings of the 15th World Congress of the International Union of Angiology, Rome, 17–22 September 1989, volume 1, Excerpta Medica, →ISBN, page 483, →ISBN

present singular third person bypasses · participle present bypassing · participle past bypassed · past bypassed · alternative by-pass

1. To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
2. To ignore the usual channels or procedures.

   More to theyr proper Elements inaugurated none, / Than ſhee to hers by-paſſed, he to his poſſeſſed Throne.

   1606, William Warner, “The Fourteenth Booke. Chapter LXXXII.”, in A Continuance of Albions England: […], London: […] Felix Kyngston [and Richard Bradock?] for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 344

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   Another force, also from the east, has by-passed Peiping and is striking southward. It apparently intends to swing eastward to form a junction, which probably will be effected near Langfang, on the railroad 30 miles southeast of Peiping.

   1948 December 15, “Peace Talks”, in Evening Examiner, volume XCVII, number 139, Petersborough, page 2, column 1

   I never got seated. 1 stood in the entrance half an hour, bypassed again and again by a maitre d’hotel who had clearly been through all this many times before. Walking to a seat, I realized, would gain me nothing. No waiter would take my order.

   1963 April 28, Robert Silverberg, “To See the Invisible Man”, in Frederik Pohl, editor, Worlds of Tomorrow, volume 1, number 1, New York, N.Y.: The Barmaray Co., Inc., →ISSN, page 155, column 1

   Datacasting bypasses the wired, terrestrial Internet and is a cheaper way to distribute software than pressing and mailing CDs.

   2000, George Abe, Residential Broadband, Cisco Systems, →ISBN

   Thanks to Brexit, many ferry companies now run direct from Ireland to the EU mainland, bypassing UK ports such as Fishguard, with an impact on traffic.

   2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52

   A team of researchers in the United States and United Kingdom say they have created the world’s first synthetic human embryo-like structures from stem cells, bypassing the need for eggs and sperm.

   2023 June 14, Brenda Goodman, “Scientists report creation of first human synthetic model embryos”, in CNN