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shunt
[ shuhnt ]
verb (used with object)
- to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.
- to sidetrack; get rid of.
- Electricity.
- to divert (a part of a current) by connecting a circuit element in parallel with another.
- to place or furnish with a shunt.
- Railroads. to shift (rolling stock) from one track to another; switch.
- Surgery.
- to divert blood or other fluid by means of a shunt.
- the tube itself.
- to move or turn aside or out of the way.
- (of a locomotive with rolling stock) to move from track to track or from point to point, as in a railroad yard; switch.
noun
- the act of shunting; shift.
- Also called bypass. Electricity. a conducting element bridged across a circuit or a portion of a circuit, establishing a current path auxiliary to the main circuit, as a resistor placed across the terminals of an ammeter for increasing the range of the device.
- a railroad switch.
- Surgery. a channel through which blood or other bodily fluid is diverted from its normal path by surgical reconstruction or by a synthetic tube.
- Anatomy. an anastomosis.
adjective
- Electricity. being, having, or operating by means of a shunt:
a shunt circuit; a shunt generator.
shunt
/ ʃʌnt /
verb
- to turn or cause to turn to one side; move or be moved aside
- railways to transfer (rolling stock) from track to track
- electronics to divert or be diverted through a shunt
- tr to evade by putting off onto someone else
- slang.tr motor racing to crash (a car)
noun
- the act or an instance of shunting
- a railway point
- electronics a low-resistance conductor connected in parallel across a device, circuit, or part of a circuit to provide an alternative path for a known fraction of the current
- med a channel that bypasses the normal circulation of the blood: a congenital abnormality or surgically induced
- informal.a collision which occurs when a vehicle runs into the back of the vehicle in front
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- shunter noun
- un·shunted adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of shunt1
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Example Sentences
You know, like Nixon tried to shunt responsibility for the break-in on to Liddy, Sturgis, et al.
Television stations can turn down their ads for any reason or shunt them into any time spot.
Instead of attacking neighbors, why not shunt the wrath onto one poor soul who stands in for all would-be enemies?
Once on the subject of jewels, it was difficult to shunt him off on another at short notice.
In place of a shunt, the voltmeter uses a coil of wire of high resistance (see R, Fig. 249) in series with the galvanometer coil.
In other words a voltmeter is connected in shunt, while an ammeter is in series with the circuit as is shown in Fig. 250.
When two or more conductors are connected in parallel each one is said to be a shunt of the others.
The shunt wound dynamo (see Fig. 286) sends a part only of the current produced through the field coils.
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