shunt /shunt/

1. To turn or move aside
2. To move (railway rolling stock) to another track, esp a side track
3. To divert or be diverted by means of a shunt (electronics or medicine)

1. To bypass
2. To sidetrack
3. To shelve
4. To get rid of
5. To crash (a car) (slang)

To be off

1. An act of shunting
2. A conductor connected in parallel with eg a measuring instrument, diverting part of an electric current
3. A switch
4. A passage (resulting from congenital abnormality or created surgically) in which two anatomical channels are connected and blood (or, in the brain, cerebrospinal fluid) is diverted from one to the other (medicine)
5. A road accident, crash, mishap (orig motor-racing sl)

shuntˈer noun

shuntˈing noun and adjective

shuntˈ-winding noun

shuntˈ-wound adjective

(of an electric motor, etc) having the field and armature circuits connected in parallel

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