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.] [1913 Webster] 2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Ash. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] For shunting your late partner on to me. --T. Hughes. [1913 Webster] 4. (Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer. [1913 Webster] Shunt \Shunt\, v. i. To go aside; to turn off. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]