SHUNT
\ʃˈʌnt], \ʃˈʌnt], \ʃ_ˈʌ_n_t]\
Definitions of SHUNT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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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a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt"
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transfer to another track, of trains
By Princeton University
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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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a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt"
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transfer to another track, of trains
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To shun; to move from.
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To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
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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.
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To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
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To go aside; to turn off.
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A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To shun; to move from.
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To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
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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.
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To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
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To go aside; to turn off.
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A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To turn off or switch, as a car or train; to supply another path for (an electric current); to put off upon someone else, as a task or duty.
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To turn aside or off.
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A turning off, as of a car, to a side rail; the act of switching; a conductor joining two points of an electric circuit through which part of the current flows.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To turn off upon a siderail, as cars in a railroad yard.
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The British name for a short siderail for allowing the main-line to be kept free.
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SHUNTING.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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