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Meaning of bypass

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  bypass
      n 1: a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does
           not have to pass through the center [syn: {beltway},
           {bypass}, {ring road}, {ringway}]
      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}, {bypass}]
      v 1: avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass
           these rules!" [syn: {bypass}, {short-circuit}, {go around},
           {get around}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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