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bypass   (TTS Sound)

The noun bypass has 3 senses

• beltway, bypass, ring road, ringway -- (a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center)


• bypass -- (a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part))


• shunt, electrical shunt, bypass -- (a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current)

The verb bypass has 1 sense

• bypass, short-circuit, go around, get around -- (avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass these rules!")