shunt
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -ʌnt
Verb [edit]
shunt (third-person singular simple present shunts, present participle shunting, simple past and past participle shunted)
- To turn away or aside
- 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) (UK) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car
Translations [edit]
to turn away or aside
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to divert electric current
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to divert the flow of a body fluid
to have a minor collision
Noun [edit]
Wikipedia shunt (plural shunts)
- 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) (UK) A minor collision