shunt

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌnt

Verb

shunt (third-person singular simple present shunts, present participle shunting, simple past and past participle shunted)

1. To turn away or aside
2. To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages etc from one train to another
3. To divert electric current by providing an alternative path
4. To divert the flow of a body fluid using surgery
5. To move data in memory to a physical disk
6. (informal) (UK) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car

Translations

to turn away or aside

• German: verlagern

to move a train or carriages

• Dutch: rangeren (nl)

• German: rangieren (de)

to divert electric current

• French: détourner le courant électrique

to divert the flow of a body fluid

to have a minor collision

Noun

Wikipedia shunt (plural shunts)

1. A switch on a railway
2. A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electric circuit
3. A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass
4. (informal) (UK) A minor collision

Anagrams

• hunts, Hunts