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Shunt \Shunt\, v. 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.]
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2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to
shove. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Ash.
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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.
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For shunting your late partner on to me. --T.
Hughes.
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4. (Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a
galvanometer.
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Shunt \Shunt\, v. i.
To go aside; to turn off.
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Shunt \Shunt\, n. [Cf. D. schuinte slant, slope, declivity. See
{Shunt}, v. t.]
1. (Railroad) A turning off to a side or short track, that
the principal track may be left free.
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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.
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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.
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{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}.
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