- to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.
- to sidetrack; get rid of.
- Electricity.
- to divert (a part of a current) by connecting a circuit element in parallel with another.
- to place or furnish with a shunt.
- to shift (rolling stock) from one track to another; switch.
- Surgery.
- to divert blood or other fluid by means of a shunt.
- the tube itself.
- to move or turn aside or out of the way.
- (of a locomotive with rolling stock) to move from track to track or from point to point, as in a railroad yard; switch.
- the act of shunting; shift.
- a conducting element bridged across a circuit or a portion of a circuit, establishing a current path auxiliary to the main circuit, as a resistor placed across the terminals of an ammeter for increasing the range of the device.
- a railroad switch.
- a channel through which blood or other bodily fluid is diverted from its normal path by surgical reconstruction or by a synthetic tube.
- an anastomosis.
- being, having, or operating by means of a shunt: a shunt circuit; a shunt generator.
- to turn or cause to turn to one side; move or be moved aside
- to transfer (rolling stock) from track to track
- to divert or be diverted through a shunt
- to evade by putting off onto someone else
- to crash (a car)
- the act or an instance of shunting
- a railway point
- a low-resistance conductor connected in parallel across a device, circuit, or part of a circuit to provide an alternative path for a known fraction of the current
- a channel that bypasses the normal circulation of the blood: a congenital abnormality or surgically induced
- a collision which occurs when a vehicle runs into the back of the vehicle in front
