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Definition of Shunts

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

Meaning of Shunts from wikipedia

- 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...
- or acquired shunts; acquired shunts (sometimes referred to as iatrogenic shunts) may be either biological or mechanical. Cardiac shunts may be described...
- from a system or component in order to prevent overcurrent. Electrical shunts are commonly used in a variety of applications including power distribution...
- Look up shunting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shunting may refer to: Ribosome shunting, a mechanism in protein biosynthesis Shunting (rail), a...
- Portosystemic shunts in animals DiPaola F, Trout AT, Walther AE, Gupta A, Sheridan R, Campbell KM, et al. (April 2020). "Congenital Portosystemic Shunts in Children:...
- cardiac output and hemoglobin concentration. Mechanical shunts such as the Blalock-Taussig shunt are used in some cases of CHD to control blood flow or...
- flow, shunt thrombosis, and hepatic insufficiency. Alternatives to surgical portacaval shunts include: Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS)...
- are cerebral shunts and lumbar shunts (extracranial shunts). Below is a list of the various types of the above two categories of shunts: Ventriculo–peritoneal...
- drainage provided by a shunt can alleviate or prevent these problems in patients with hydrocephalus or related diseases. Shunts come in a variety of forms...
- obstructed, shunts. Micro-Pumper allows ShuntCheck to differentiate between temporarily non-flowing patent shunts and obstructed shunts. The current...