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SHUNT
shunt
(noun) implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
shunt, electrical shunt, bypass
(noun) a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
shunt
(noun) a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; “an arteriovenus shunt”
shunt
(verb) transfer to another track, of trains
shunt
(verb) provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
shunt (third-person singular simple present shunts, present participle shunting, simple past and past participle shunted)
(transitive) To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.
Synonym: shove
(transitive) To divert to a less important place, position, or state.
(transitive) To provide with a shunt.
(transitive, computing) To move data in memory to a physical disk.
(transitive, electricity) To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
(transitive, rail transport) To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.
(transitive, chiefly, road transport, informal, Britain) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
(transitive, surgery) To divert the flow of a body fluid.
(transitive, obsolete, Britain, dialectal) To turn aside or away; to divert.
Noun
shunt (plural shunts)
An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.
(electricity) A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.
(firearms) 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.
(medicine, veterinary medicine) An abnormal passage between body channels.
(surgery) A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.
(rail transport) A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another.
(chiefly, road transport, informal, Britain) A minor collision between vehicles.
Anagrams
• Hunts, hunts
Source: Wiktionary
Shunt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Shunting.] Etym: [Prov. E., to move from, to put off, fr. OE. shunten, schunten, schounten; cf. D. schuinte a slant, slope, Icel. skunda to hasten. Cf. Shun.]
1. To shun; to move from. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.] Ash.
3. 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. For shunting your late partner on to me. T. Hughes.
4. (Elec.)
Definition: To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
Shunt, v. i.
Definition: To go aside; to turn off.
Shunt, n. Etym: [Cf. D. schuinte slant, slope, declivity. See Shunt, v. t.]
1. (Railroad)
Definition: A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
2. (Elec.)
Definition: 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.
3. (Gunnery)
Definition: 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. Shunt dynamo (Elec.), a dynamo in which the field circuit is connected with the main circuit so as to form a shunt to the letter, thus employing a portion of the current from the armature to maintain the field.
– Shunt gun, a firearm having shunt rifling. See under Rifling.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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