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Definition of 'shunt'English
Verb
( en-verb)
(obsolete|UK|dialect) To turn away or aside.
(obsolete|UK|dialect) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
- (Ash)
To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages etc from one train to another.
To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
To divert the flow of a body fluid using surgery.
To move data in memory to a physical disk.
(informal|British) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
To provide with a shunt.
- to shunt a galvanometer
Noun
( wikipedia)
( en-noun)
A switch on a railway
A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electric circuit
A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass
(informal|British) A minor collision
(firearms) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
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