Shunt - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ʃʌnt|  American pronunciation of the word shunt
Brit.  |ʃʌnt|  British pronunciation of the word shunt

noun

- a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another
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

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
noun
singular: shunt
plural: shunts
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