vi to go aside; to turn off.
2. shunt ·vt to shun; to move from.
3. shunt ·vt to provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
4. shunt ·vt a turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
5. shunt ·vt to cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
6. shunt ·vt 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.
7. shunt ·vt 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.
8. shunt ·vt 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.