bypass

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪpæs/ / /ˈbaɪpɑːs/

Etymology: From Middle English *bypassen, *bipassen (suggested by past participle by-past, bipast), equivalent to by- + pass.

A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
The act of going past or around.
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 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).”

Etymology: From Middle English *bypassen, *bipassen (suggested by past participle by-past, bipast), equivalent to by- + pass.

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