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Shunt   /ʃənt/   Listen
noun
Shunt  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.



verb
Shunt  v. t.  (past & past part. shunted; pres. part. shunting)  
1.
To shun; to move from. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
2.
To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
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."
4.
(Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.



Shunt  v. i.  To go aside; to turn off.






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"Shunt" Quotes from Famous Books



... for a moment that I'll have the brat in my house, do you? Great? I don't see what you can be thinking of, Harvey. You must be clean out of your head. I should say it ain't great. It's perfectly outrageous. Where's the telegraph office, Joe? I'll show the dreadful little wretch that she can't shunt her child off on me for support. Not much. Where is it, Joe? Didn't you hear what ...
— What's-His-Name • George Barr McCutcheon

... cheaper. Say three quid—come, that's reasonable, ain't it? Three quid ain't much compensation for me goin' away for ever—where the stormy winds do blow, so to say—an' never as much as seein' me own wife agin for better nor wuss. Between man an' man, now, three quid, an' I'll shunt. That's fair, ain't it?" ...
— Stories By English Authors: London • Various

... conventional diagram, fig. 19, gives a schematic outline of the connections. The two galvanometer coils, fl and fr, are wound differentially and both coils most carefully balanced so that the two windings have equal temperature coefficients. This is done by inserting a small shunt y, parallel with the coil fl, and thus the temperature coefficient of fl and fr are made absolutely equal. The two thermometers are indicated as T{1} and T{2} and are inserted in the ingoing and outgoing water respectively. A slide-wire ...
— Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man • Francis Gano Benedict

... juries had a higher record of conviction than ordinary juries and that their sympathies were "conservative." The Court, speaking by Justice Jackson, answered that "a state is not required to try all offenses to the same forum," but conceded that "a discretion, even if vested in the court, to shunt a defendant before a jury so chosen as greatly to lessen his chances while others accused of a like offense are tried by a jury so drawn as to be more favorable to them, would hardly be 'equal protection of the laws.'"[1213] However, he ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... a kind of shed whose key was not forthcoming. We failed to find even a light, till the local train from Suez was announced; and, when it began whistling, the officials, who had returned like rats from their holes, gave us peremptory directions to shunt again. This time, however, I had the game in my hands; and replied by taking due precautions ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 2 • Richard Burton


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