Look up: shunt

1. Shunt
   [rail] Shunting, in railway operations, involves the process of sorting items of rolling stock into complete train sets or consists. The United States terminology is "switching". The occupation of shunter is particularly dangerous as there is a risk of being run over, and on some rail system...
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2. Shunt
   [electrical] In electronics, a shunt is a device which allows electric current to pass around another point in the circuit. The term is also widely used in photovoltaics to describe an unwanted short circuit between the front and back surface contacts of a solar cell, usually caused by wafer...
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3. shunt
   send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion 
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4. shunt
   [n] - a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another 2. [n] - a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current 3. [n] - implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber 4. [v] ...
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5. Shunt
   This generally means parallel connection.
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6. Shunt
   an artificially constructed or an abnormal passage connecting two usually separate structures in the body
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7. Shunt
   Shunt: 1) To move a body fluid, such as cerebrospinal fluid, from one place to another.
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8. shunt
   applied to a machine to denote that it is excited by a shunt winding Category: Electrical engineering and energy • a resistor connected in parallel with the current circuit of a measuring instrument in order to reduce,by a known ratio,the current passing through it Category: Electrical engineering and energy
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9. Shunt
   Shunt transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Shunted ; present participle & verbal noun Shunting .] [ Prov. E., to move from, to put off, from Middle English shunten , sch...
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10. Shunt
    Shunt intransitive verb To go aside; to turn off.
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11. Shunt
    Shunt noun [ Confer 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.
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12. shunt
    1. To turn to one side, to divert, to bypass. ... 2. <cardiology> A passage or anastomosis between two natural channels, especially between blood vessels. Such structures may be formed physiologically (for example to bypass a thrombosis) or they may be structural anomalies. ... 3. <surgery&...
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13. shunt
    noun implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
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14. shunt
    noun a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; `an arteriovenus shunt`
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15. shunt
    noun a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
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16. shunt
    (shunt) to turn to one side; to divert; to bypass. a passage or anastomosis between two natural channels, especially between blood vessels. Such structures may be formed physiologically (such as to bypass a thrombosis), or they may be structural anomalies. a surgical anastomosis.
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17. Shunt
    • (v. t.) 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. • (v. i.) To go...
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18. shunt
    (from the article `enterprise unionism`) ...of industrial federation or Reng representatives. Instead, these latter groups coordinate enterprise-level bargaining, especially for the annual ... In 1955 Shy successfully coordinated union demands by launching the first shunt (`spring offensive`); this has since been continued ann...
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19. shunt
    1. to turn to one side; to divert; to bypass. 2. a passage or anastomosis between two natural channels, especially between blood vessels. Such structures may be formed physiologically (e.g. to bypass a thrombosis) or they may be structural anomalies. 3. a surgically created anastomosis; also, the operation of forming a shunt.
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20. shunt
    resistor connected in parallel with the current circuit of a measuring instrument in order to extend its measuring range NOTE - A shunt is generally intended to provide a voltage proportional to the current to be measured.
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21. shunt
    qualifies a machine to denote that it is excited by a winding in parallel to the armature winding
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22. Shunt
    Shunt is slang for to shift responsibility onto someone else.
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23. Shunt
    Shunt is slang for to shift responsibility onto someone else.
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24. Shunt
    To marshal vehicles in a given order to form a train. A rough shunt can cause damage to vehicle couplings or even bodies. The risks of damage are high as often this is carried out without adequate attention being paid to coupling of brake pipes. Thus one locomotive may be moving several vehicles without brakes.
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25. shunt
    Type: Term Pronunciation: shŭnt Definitions: 1. To bypass or divert. 2. A bypass or diversion of fluid to another fluid-containing system by fistulation or a prosthetic device. The nomenclature commonly includes origin and terminus, atriovenous, splenorenal, ventriculocisternal.
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