n 1: a road that takes traffic around the edge of a town [syn: circumferential, ring road]
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]
v : avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass
these rules!" [syn: short-circuit, go around, {get
around}]