Look up: shunting

1. shunting
   the movement of railway vehicles to position or stable them,or to make up or split up train formations Category: Transport
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2. Shunting
   Shunt'ing present participle & verbal noun of Shunt . Specif.: verbal noun (a) (Railroads) Switching; as, shunting engine, yard, etc. [ British] (b) (Finance) Arbitrage conducted bet...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/96
   
   
3. Shunting
   • (vb. n.) Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage. • (vb. n.) Switching; as, shunting engine, yard, etc. • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shunt
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4. shunting
   (from the article `respiration, human`) In shunting, venous blood enters the bloodstream without passing through functioning lung tissue. Shunting of blood may result from abnormal vascular ...
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/89
   
   
5. Shunting
   `Shunting` is an event in the neuron which occurs when an excitatory postsynaptic potential and an inhibitory postsynaptic potential are occurring close to each other on a dendrite, or are both on the soma of the cell. According to temporal summation one would expect the inhibitory and excitatory cu...
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