a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another
<noun.body> an arteriovenus shunt
a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
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implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
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transfer to another track, of trains
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provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
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Shunt \Shunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shunted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shunting}.] [Prov. E., to move from, to put off, fr. OE. shunten, schunten, schounten; cf. D. schuinte a slant, slope, Icel. skunda to hasten. Cf. {Shun}.] 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.] --Ash.
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.
Shunt \Shunt\, v. i. To go aside; to turn off.
Shunt \Shunt\, n. [Cf. D. schuinte slant, slope, declivity. See {Shunt}, v. t.] 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}.
Dr. Arenberg has designed a shunt to help divert inner ear fluid that contributes to a buildup of pressure in the inner ear.
In the old days you would see a ghastly crash with smoke and flames and wheels hurtling off the track and Hunt would drawl 'Bit of a shunt there.