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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024shunt /ʃʌnt/USA pronunciation v. - to force or turn (something) aside or out of the way:[~ + object]to shunt the tanks off to the side.
- to turn to the side:[no object]The railroad cars shunted off to the side.
- Surgery[~ + object] to change the direction of the flow of a fluid by means of a shunt.
n. [countable] - the act of shunting;
shift. - Rail Transporta railroad switch.
- Surgerya channel through which a bodily fluid is sent off from its normal path by surgical connection or by insertion of an artificial tube.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024shunt (shunt),USA pronunciation v.t. - to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.
- to sidetrack;
get rid of. - Electricity
- to divert (a part of a current) by connecting a circuit element in parallel with another.
- to place or furnish with a shunt.
- Rail Transportto shift (rolling stock) from one track to another;
switch. - Surgery
- to divert blood or other fluid by means of a shunt.
- the tube itself.
- to move or turn aside or out of the way.
- Rail Transport(of a locomotive with rolling stock) to move from track to track or from point to point, as in a railroad yard;
switch.
n. - the act of shunting;
shift. - ElectricityAlso called bypass. a conducting element bridged across a circuit or a portion of a circuit, establishing a current path auxiliary to the main circuit, as a resistor placed across the terminals of an ammeter for increasing the range of the device.
- Rail Transporta railroad switch.
- Surgerya channel through which blood or other bodily fluid is diverted from its normal path by surgical reconstruction or by a synthetic tube.
- Anatomyan anastomosis.
adj. - Electricitybeing, having, or operating by means of a shunt:a shunt circuit; a shunt generator.
- 1175–1225; (verb, verbal) Middle English schunten, shonten to shy (said of horses); (noun, nominal) Middle English, derivative of the verb, verbal; akin to shun
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: shunt /ʃʌnt/ vb - to turn or cause to turn to one side; move or be moved aside
- to transfer (rolling stock) from track to track
- to divert or be diverted through a shunt
- (transitive) to evade by putting off onto someone else
n - the act or an instance of shunting
- a railway point
- a low-resistance conductor connected in parallel across a device, circuit, or part of a circuit to provide an alternative path for a known fraction of the current
- a channel that bypasses the normal circulation of the blood: a congenital abnormality or surgically induced
- Brit informal a collision which occurs when a vehicle runs into the back of the vehicle in front
Etymology: 13th Century: perhaps from shunen to shun |