SHUNTS
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Definition
noun
- An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.
- A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.
- 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.
- An abnormal passage between body channels.
- A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.
verb
- To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.
- To divert to a less important place, position, or state.
- To provide with a shunt.“to shunt a galvanometer”
- To move data in memory to a physical disk.
- To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
Source: Wiktionary
