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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 paral...

1: a capacitor that provides low impedance over certain (high) frequencies [syn: {bypass condenser}]

1: a capacitor that provides low impedance over certain (high) frequencies [syn: {bypass capacitor}]

{bypass}

1: a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) [syn: {byway}, {byroad}]

1: incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious" [syn: {business}, {stage business}]

1: a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence [syn: {by-product}] 2: a product made during the manufacture of something else [syn: {by-product}, {spin-off}]

1: English organist and composer of church music; master of 16th century polyphony; was granted a monopoly in music printing with Thomas Tallis (1543-1623) [syn: {William Byrd}] 2: explorer and United...

1: a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor [syn: {hauberk}]

1: a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) [syn: {byway}, {bypath}]

1: English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824) [syn: {Lord George Gordon Byron}, {Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale}]

{byssus}

1: tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface [syn: {beard}] [also: {byssi} (pl)]

1: a nonparticipant spectator

1: a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information

1: a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) [syn: {bypath}, {byroad}]

1: a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people [syn: {proverb}, {adage}, {saw}]

1: a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages [syn: {bezant}, {bezzant}, {solidus}]

1: of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it; "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites" 2: of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city o...

1: the style of architecture developed in the Byzantine Empire developed after the 5th century; massive domes with square bases and rounded arches and spires and much use of mosaics

1: the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire [syn: {Eastern Church}]

1: a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 [syn: {Byzantium}, {Eastern Roman Empire}]

1: the Greek language from about 600 to 1200 AD [syn: {Medieval Greek}, {Middle Greek}]

1: the doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters [syn: {Erastianism}, {Caesaropapism}]

1: an ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks; site of modern Istanbul; in 330 Constantine I rebuilt the city and called it Constantinople and made it his capital 2: a continuation of the R...