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- Dictionaryshunt/ʃʌnt/
verb
- 1. push or pull (a train or part of a train) from the main line to a siding or from one line of rails to another: "their train had been shunted into a siding"
- 2. provide (an electrical current) with a conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of the current may be diverted: "these components are designed to shunt electrical surges away from microcircuits"
noun
- 1. an act of pushing or shoving something: "the engine turnround was helped by a gravity shunt"
- 2. an electrical conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of a current may be diverted.
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a. : to turn off to one side : shift. was shunted aside. b. : to switch (a railroad car, a train, etc.) from one track to another. 2. : to provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt. 3. : to divert (blood or other bodily fluid) from one part to another by a surgical shunt.
to move someone or something from one place to another, usually because that person or thing is not wanted, and without considering any unpleasant effects: I spent most of my childhood being shunted (about) between my parents who had divorced when I was five. He shunts his kids off to a camp every summer.
1. to turn to one side; to divert; to bypass. 2. a passage or anastomosis between two natural channels, especially between blood vessels. Such structures may be formed physiologically (e.g., to bypass a thrombosis), or they may be structural anomalies. 3. a surgical anastomosis.
to move someone or something from one place to another, usually because that person or thing is not wanted, and without considering any unpleasant effects: I spent most of my childhood being shunted between my parents who had divorced when I was five. He shunts his kids off to camp every summer.
Shunt definition: to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.. See examples of SHUNT used in a sentence.
In medicine, a shunt is a hole or a small passage that moves, or allows movement of, fluid from one part of the body to another. The term may describe either congenital or acquired shunts; acquired shunts (sometimes referred to as iatrogenic shunts) may be either biological or mechanical.
A shunt is any component connected in parallel. A current shunt is a device for altering the amount of electric current flowing through a piece of apparatus, such as a galvanometer.
