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Shunt   Listen
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.





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"Shunt" Quotes from Famous Books



... argue," she responded, with what he took for a touch of heat. "If people disagree with me I just shunt." ...
— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell


Words linked to "Shunt" :   electric circuit, deviate, implant, passageway, passage, circuit, shift, electrical shunt, shunter


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