Bypassed

Bypassed is the past participle of bypass. The verb bypass means to go around or avoid an obstacle, route, or procedure. When something is described as bypassed, it has been circumvented or skipped.

In infrastructure and transportation, a bypass refers to a road or route designed to redirect traffic away from a town, neighborhood, or obstacle. A town may be bypassed to reduce center-city congestion and improve through traffic flow.

In engineering and electronics, a bypass component provides an alternate path for current or signals, diverting them away from a device. Examples include bypass capacitors and bypass relays. In medicine, bypass describes surgical procedures that reroute blood flow, such as coronary bypass grafting, creating an alternative circulation. In computing and cybersecurity, a feature or control may be bypassed, either during testing or as a vulnerability exploit.

The term bypassed is used across contexts to describe actions that avoid, override, or skip standard routes, checks, or pathways. See also bypass, bypass surgery, bypass road, bypass capacitor.