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shunt - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'shunt' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Shunt [ v. i.]
- To go aside; to turn off.
2 . Shunt [ v. t.]
- 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
Example in sentence:
  • an arteriovenus shunt