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Definition of Shunting

Shunting
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.] 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 galvanometer.
Shunting
Shunting Shunt"ing, p. pr. & vb. n. of Shunt. Specif.: vb. n. (a) (Railroads) Switching; as, shunting engine, yard, etc. [British] (b) (Finance) Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage. [Great Britain]

Meaning of Shunting from wikipedia

- transport operation Shunting (neurophysiology), a concept in neurophysiology Shunting (sailing), a maneuver for sailing upwind Shunt (disambiguation) This...
- Look up shunt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shunt may refer to: Shunt (medical), a hole or p****age allowing fluid to move from one part of the body...
- hepatic vein. It is used to treat portal hypertension. VASP (Vesicoamniotic shunting procedure): Fetal lower urinary tract outflow obstruction prevents the...
- Shunting yard may refer to: classification yard Shunting yard algorithm British term for rail yard This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with...
- Ribosome shunting is a mechanism of translation initiation in which ribosomes byp****, or "shunt over", parts of the 5' untranslated region to reach the...
- rapid transshipment shunting yard". Transportation Science. 32 (4): 370–379. doi:10.1287/trsc.32.4.370. Boysen, Nils (2012). "Shunting yard operations: Theoretical...
- and mammals. The most common congenital heart defects (CHDs) which cause shunting are atrial septal defects (ASD), patent foramen ovale (PFO), ventricular...
- A peritoneovenous shunt is a shunt which drains peritoneal fluid from the peritoneum into a large vein, usually the internal jugular vein. It is sometimes...
- named the "shunting yard" algorithm because its operation resembles that of a railroad shunting yard. Like the evaluation of RPN, the shunting yard algorithm...
- transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS), as the preferred management for portal hypertension. Portacaval shunting is no longer commonly used as the...