Definition of "bypass" in English

noun

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. (medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.

verb

1. To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.

2. To ignore the usual channels or procedures.