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Shunt Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Shunt?
[n] implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
[n] a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current [n] a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt" [v] transfer to another track, of trains [v] provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt Synonyms | Synonyms for Shunt: bypass | electrical shunt Related Terms | Find terms related to Shunt: See Also | bypass | circuit | conductor | deviate | electric circuit | electrical circuit | implant | passage | passageway | portacaval shunt | shift | transfer Shunt In Webster's Dictionary \Shunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shunted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shunting}.] [Prov. E., to move from, to put off, fr. OE.
shunten, schunten, schounten; cf. D. schuinte a slant, slope,
Icel. skunda to hasten. Cf. {Shun}.]
1. To shun; to move from. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to
shove. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Ash.
3. To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a
grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift.
For shunting your late partner on to me. --T.
Hughes.
4. (Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a
galvanometer.
\Shunt\, v. i. To go aside; to turn off. \Shunt\, n. [Cf. D. schuinte slant, slope, declivity. See {Shunt}, v. t.] 1. (Railroad) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free. 2. (Elec.) A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit. 3. (Gunnery) 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. {Shunt dynamo} (Elec.), a dynamo in which the field circuit is connected with the main circuit so as to form a shunt to the letter, thus employing a portion of the current from the armature to maintain the field. {Shunt gun}, a firearm having shunt rifling. See under {Rifling}. |
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