shunt

[shunt]

A shunt is a small tube that goes inside the body to drain fluid. It also means to divert in a general way, like if you shunt the thought of tubes in your body, you think about rainbows and kittens instead.

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To go aside; to turn off.

Noun
implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body

Noun
a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current

Noun
a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt"

Verb
transfer to another track, of trains

Verb
provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

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v. t.
To shun; to move from.

v. t.
To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.

v. i.
To go aside; to turn off.

v. t.
A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
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

Shunt , v. i. To go aside; to turn off.

Shunt

Shunt, n. [Cf. D. schuinte slant, slope, declivity. See Shunt, v. t.] 1. (Railroad) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free. 2. (Elec.) 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) 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.

To go aside; to turn off.

A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.

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