Category:Shunt

Shunt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Shunting.] Etym: [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.)

Defn: to provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.

Shunt Shunt, v. i.

Defn: to go aside; to turn off.

Shunt Shunt, n. Etym: [cf. D. schuinte slant, slope, declivity. See shunt, V. t.]

1. (railroad)

Defn: a turning off to a side or short track, that the principal Track may be left free.

2. (elec.)

Defn: 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)

Defn: 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.