Thesaurus: shunt

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1. v. t. To shun; to move from.
2. v. t. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
3. v. t. 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.
4. v. t. To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
5. v. i. To go aside; to turn off.
6. v. t. A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
7. v. t. 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.
8. v. t. 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.
9. n. a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another
10. n. a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
11. n. implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
12. v. transfer to another track, of trains