SHUNT


Meaning of SHUNT in English

■ verb

1》 slowly push or pull (a railway vehicle or vehicles) so as to make up or remove from a train.

↘push or shove.

↘direct or divert to a less important place or position.

2》 provide (an electrical circuit) with a ~, through which some of the current may be diverted.

■ noun

1》 an act of ~ing.

2》 Brit. informal a motor accident, especially a collision of vehicles travelling one close behind the other.

3》 an electrical conductor joining two points of a circuit.

4》 Surgery an alternative path created for the passage of blood or other fluid.

Origin

ME: perh. from shun .

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