| 单词 | shunt |
| 释义 | shunt —shunter, n. /shunt/, v.t. 1. to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way. 2. to sidetrack; get rid of. 3. Elect. a. to divert (a part of a current) by connecting a circuit element in parallel with another. b. to place or furnish with a shunt. 4. Railroads. to shift (rolling stock) from one track to another; switch. 5. Surg. a. to divert blood or other fluid by means of a shunt. b. the tube itself. 6. to move or turn aside or out of the way. 7. (of a locomotive with rolling stock) to move from track to track or from point to point, as in a railroad yard; switch. n. 8. the act of shunting; shift. 9. Also called bypass. Elect. 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. 10. a railroad switch. 11. Surg. a channel through which blood or other bodily fluid is diverted from its normal path by surgical reconstruction or by a synthetic tube. 12. Anat. an anastomosis. adj. 13. Elect. being, having, or operating by means of a shunt: a shunt circuit; a shunt generator. [1175-1225; (v.) ME schunten, shonten to shy (said of horses); (n.) ME, deriv. of the v.; akin to SHUN] |
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