SHUNTED
Verb
shunted
simple past tense and past participle of shunt
Adjective
shunted (not comparable)
fitted with an electrical shunt
Source: Wiktionary
SHUNT
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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