- To shun; to move from. - To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to
shove. - To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a
grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift. - To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer. - A turning off to a side or short track, that the
principal track may be left free. - A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor,
or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel
or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for
the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit. - The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep
to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
Meaning of 'shunt' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . shunt
[ n]
Meaning (1): - a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another