shunt Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another
    • an arteriovenus shunt
  2. noun a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
    electrical shunt; bypass.
  3. noun implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
  4. verb transfer to another track, of trains
  5. verb provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

WordNet

Shunt transitive verb
Etymology
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.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Shunted; present participle & verbal noun Shunting
Definitions
  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 intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To go aside; to turn off.
Shunt noun
Etymology
Cf. D. schuinte slant, slope, declivity. See Shunt, v. t.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913