Shunt Definition

shŭnt
shunted, shunting, shunts
noun
shunts
The act or process of turning aside or moving to an alternate course.
American Heritage Medicine
The act of shunting.
Webster's New World

Switch.

Webster's New World
A railroad switch.
American Heritage
A conductor connecting two points in a circuit in parallel so that an additional pathway is created for the current.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • bypass
  • electrical shunt
verb
shunted, shunting, shunts
To turn or move aside or onto another course.
Shunting traffic around an accident.
American Heritage
To evade by putting aside or ignoring.
Urgent problems that society can no longer shunt aside.
American Heritage
To shift or switch, as a train, car, etc. from one track to another.
Webster's New World
To move or turn to one side; turn aside or out of the way.
Webster's New World
To provide or connect with a shunt.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Shunt

Noun

Singular:
shunt
Plural:
shunts

Origin of Shunt

  • Middle English shunten to flinch

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Shunt Sentence Examples

  • The other is a shunt across the terminals of the armature.

  • In the case of ammeters intended for very small currents, the whole current can be sent through the coil, but for larger currents it is necessary to provide in the instrument a shunt which carries the main current, the movable coil being connected to the ends of this shunt so that it takes a definite small fraction of the current passed through the instrument.

  • The shunt coil Sh and the series coil Se are connected together at one point, and the remaining terminals of the dynamo and shunt coil must be connected to a " good earth," which is generally the gas or water pipes w of the building.

  • The magnetic shunt (which is connected Magnetic across the receiving instrument) consists of a low resist- shunt.

  • In proximity to the upper side of the disk is placed a coil of wire having an iron core, which is a shunt coil, the ends of the coil being connected to the terminals of the supply mains.

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