Found 2 items, similar to Shunt.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: shunt
shunt
n 1: a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is
diverted from one channel to another;
“an arteriovenus
shunt”
2: a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another
device to divert a fraction of the current [syn:
electrical shunt
,
bypass]
3: implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for
draining fluids within the body
v 1: transfer to another track, of trains
2: provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Shunt
Shunt
\Shunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Shunted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Shunting.] [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.]
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2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to
shove. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Ash.
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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.
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For shunting your late partner on to me. --T.
Hughes.
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4. (Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a
galvanometer.
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Shunt
\Shunt\, v. i.
To go aside; to turn off.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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