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shunt
[shuhnt]
verb (used with object)
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.
Railroads.to 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.
(of a locomotive with rolling stock) to move from track to track or from point to point, as in a railroad yard; switch.
noun
the act of shunting; shift.
Also called bypass.Electricity.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.
a railroad switch.
Surgery.a channel through which blood or other bodily fluid is diverted from its normal path by surgical reconstruction or by a synthetic tube.
Anatomy.an anastomosis.
adjective
Electricity.being, having, or operating by means of a shunt.
a shunt circuit; a shunt generator.
shunt
/ ʃʌԳ /
verb
to turn or cause to turn to one side; move or be moved aside
railways to transfer (rolling stock) from track to track
electronics to divert or be diverted through a shunt
(tr) to evade by putting off onto someone else
slang(tr) motor racing to crash (a car)
noun
the act or an instance of shunting
a railway point
electronics 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
med a channel that bypasses the normal circulation of the blood: a congenital abnormality or surgically induced
informala collision which occurs when a vehicle runs into the back of the vehicle in front
Other Word Forms
- shunter noun
- unshunted adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of shunt1
Example Sentences
One time, a teenage girl, writing for her high school newspaper, was roughly shunted aside by the sportswriter pack before a Cincinnati Reds game.
Hundreds of journalists were accredited for a process that would, surely, dominate headlines in France throughout its three-month duration and force a queasy public to confront a crime too often shunted to the sidelines.
Surgical treatment usually involves placement of a shunt.
"We need a framework. If people don't have an idea of what to do, then very often they will just do nothing or shunt it on to somewhere else," Ms Matuozzo said.
Though shunted out of the spotlight by other news events during that period, they are nevertheless notable — containing several major updates from earlier tsunami inundation maps that were published a decade earlier or more.
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