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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