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noun

Shunt n.

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.

verb

Shunt v. t. (past & past part. shunted; pres. part. shunting)

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.)

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."

4.

(Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.

Shunt v. i. To go aside; to turn off.

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"Shunt" Quotes from Famous Books

... land of their fathers knew them no more. Dry the starting tear! here your pity is misplaced. Think of no vine-covered cottages ruined; no homesteads burned; no fields laid waste. They lived mainly in the saddle; they were as much at home fleeing before the Chinese army as at another time. A shunt here; a good kick off there: so he dealt with them. It is in European veins their blood flows now;—and prides itself on its pure undiluted Aryanism and Nordicism, no doubt. I suppose scarcely a people in continental Europe is without some mixture of it; for they enlisted at last in all ...

— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris

... to the Front they couldn't keep still. They asked us eagerly if we'd had many of "our regiment" wounded, and how many casualties were there, and how was the fighting going, and how long would the journey take. (The nearer you get to the Front the longer it takes, as trains are always having to shunt and go round loops to make room for supply trains.) They didn't seem to have the dimmest idea what they're in for, bless them. They are on this train in the ...

— Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 • Anonymous

... food and the wounded at the rear with medicaments, were kept back to suit the schemes of these greedy cormorants. Gratuities, it is openly affirmed, had to be paid by Red Cross and other officers to those subordinate railway servants who had it in their power to send on a train or shunt it off for days on a side-track. Bribery is working havoc in the Tsardom. In January 1916 the Moscow municipality discussed the advisability of voting a certain sum of money and putting it at the disposal of the chief officer of the city, to be discreetly ...

— England and Germany • Emile Joseph Dillon

... Military Railway for the time being, never rose to the dignity of a cinema. Like the inhabitants of a certain country village in the North of England, if you wanted distraction at Ludd you went to the station and watched the trains shunt. ...

— With Our Army in Palestine • Antony Bluett

... boiled in pitch, and placed ten feet apart, at a distance of 22 inches from the inside rail and 17 inches above the ground. This rail comes close up against the fence on the side of the road, thus forming an additional protection. The conductor is connected by an underground cable to a single shunt-wound dynamo machine, placed in the engine shed, and worked by a small agricultural steam engine of about 25 indicated horse power. The current is conveyed from the conductor by means of two springs, made of steel, rigidly held by two steel bars placed one at each end of the car, and projecting ...

— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XV., No. 388, June 9, 1883 • Various

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