- avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass these rules!"
- beltway: a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
- a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
- shunt: a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
- Source direct, also known as tone defeat or bypass is a sound engineering term. It describes a feature on a piece of audio equipment which allows the audio effect such as bass and treble controls to be bypassed, leaving the sound unaltered by the equipment. ...
- In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. ...
- A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety.
- In telecommunications, the term bypass has these meanings: # The use of any telecommunications facilities or services that circumvents those of the local exchange common carrier. #: Note: Bypass facilities or services may be either customer-provided or vendor-supplied. ...
- In rebreather breathing sets, a bypass is a hand-operated valve that can be used to let more oxygen (or other breathing gas) into the breathing system, by-passing the cylinder's flow rate control valve.
- (Bypassing) In ordinary English bypassing means to pass by a place without entering it. Thus a road known as a bypass may be built around a town, and traffic which needs to use the roads in the area but not enter the town will bypass it.
- a road that passes around something, such as a residential area; a circumvention; a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture; an electrical shunt; an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a ...
- (Bypassing) Avoiding the chat filter. You can get silenced for this (See Silence).
- (Bypassing) The skill bypasses and ignores an effect on the target. Commonly used for bypassing invulnerability or counter effects.
- (bypassing) The diversion of a flow of water or wastewater around processes or structure through which the flow normally passes. Also used to describe the diversion of raw or partially treated wastewater to a receiving body of water.
- (bypassing) moving beach material from the updrift to the downdrift side of an obstruction such as a river, marina or groyne.
- (bypassing) the pattern of miscommunication that occurs when individuals think they understand each other but actually miss each other's meaning.
- An arrangement of pipes, gates and valves by which the flow of water may be passed around a piece of equipment or diverted to another piece of equipment; a controlled diversion.
- Access an IEC other than the customer's Equal Access carrier by dialing 10+CIC Code.(e.g. Bypass to WorldCom by dialing "1010555"). See Walkthrough, CIC Code
- A surgical procedure in which the doctor creates a new pathway for the flow of body fluids.
- Providing a secondary path to relieve pressure in the primary passage. One example would be a water pump or thermostat housing bypass in the cooling system.
- A connection or a valve system that allows untreated water to flow to a water system while a water treatment unit is being regenerated, backwashed, or serviced; also applied to a special water line installed to provide untreated water to a particular tap, such as a sill cock.
- The alteration of a telephone instrument so that it will pass audio even with the handset on the cradle (an alteration to the hookswitch).
- airstream that completely bypasses the core compression system, combustor and turbine system
- a door consisting of two or more panels that run in parallel tracks.
- The ability of a station to isolate itself optically from a network while maintaining the continuity of the cable plant.