Shunt
Shunt , transitive verb
[Prov. English, to move from, to put off, from Old English shunten, schunten, schounten; compare Dutch schuinte a slant, slope, Icelandic skunda to hasten. Compare Shun.]
1.
To shun; to move from. [Obsolete or Provincial English]
2.
To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. [Obsolete or Provincial English] — Ash
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.
(Electricity) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
Shunt , intransitive verb
To go aside; to turn off.
Shunt , noun
[Compare Dutch schuinte slant, slope, declivity. See Shunt, transitive verb]
1.
(Railroad) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
2.
(Electricity) 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.
3.
(Gunnery) 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.
Collocations (2)
Shunt dynamo (Electricity) , a dynamo in which the field circuit is connected with the main circuit so as to form a shunt to the letter, thus employing a portion of the current from the armature to maintain the field.
Shunt gun , a firearm having shunt rifling. See under Rifling.