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Webster 1913 Edition
Shunt
Shunt
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Shunted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Shunting
.] [Prov. E., to move from, to put off, fr. OE.
shunten
, schunten
, schounten
; cf. D. schuinte
a slant, slope, Icel. skunda
to hasten. Cf. Shun
.] 1.
To shun; to move from.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2.
To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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. T. Hughes.
4.
(Elec.)
To provide with a shunt;
as, to
. shunt
a galvanometerShunt
,Verb.
I.
To go aside; to turn off.
1.
(Railroad)
A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
2.
(Elec.)
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.
Shunt dynamo
(Elec.)
, 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
.