| 释义 |
shunt /shunt/ transitive verb and intransitive verb- To turn or move aside
- To move (railway rolling stock) to another track, esp a side track
- To divert or be diverted by means of a shunt (electronics or medicine)
transitive verb- To bypass
- To sidetrack
- To shelve
- To get rid of
- To crash (a car) (slang)
intransitive verb (informal)To be off noun- An act of shunting
- A conductor connected in parallel with eg a measuring instrument, diverting part of an electric current
- A switch
- 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)
- A road accident, crash, mishap (orig motor-racing sl)
ORIGIN: Perh connected with shun 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 |