Shunt

v. t.	1.	To shun; to move from. [imp. & p. p. Shunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Shunting.]
	2.	To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
	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.
v. i.	1.	To go aside; to turn off.
n.	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.

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

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