Shunt - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ʃʌnt|
Brit.
|ʃʌnt|
noun
- a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another
- implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
an arteriovenus shunt
- a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current (syn: bypass)- implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
verb
- transfer to another track, of trains
- provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
- provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
Extra examples
Shunt the box at the other end.
The damaged train will have to be shunted onto a side line.
Smith was shunted off to one of the company's smaller offices.
How can we shunt the talks onto more productive subjects?
Word forms
verb
I/you/we/they: shunt
he/she/it: shunts
present participle: shunting
past tense: shunted
past participle: shunted
I/you/we/they: shunt
he/she/it: shunts
present participle: shunting
past tense: shunted
past participle: shunted
noun
singular: shunt
plural: shunts
singular: shunt
plural: shunts
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