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shunt

To divert, switch or bypass.

shunt

1. a railway point

2. Electronics a low-resistance conductor connected in parallel across a device, circuit, or part of a circuit to provide an alternative path for a known fraction of the current

3. Med a channel that bypasses the normal circulation of the blood: a congenital abnormality or surgically induced

4. Brit informal a collision which occurs when a vehicle runs into the back of the vehicle in front

shunt [shənt]

(civil engineering)

To shove or turn off to one side, as a car or train from one track to another.

(electricity)

A precision low-value resistor placed across the terminals of an ammeter to increase its range by allowing a known fraction of the circuit current to go around the meter. Also known as electric shunt.

To place one part in parallel with another.

parallel

(electromagnetism)

A piece of iron that provides a parallel path for magnetic flux around an air gap in a magnetic circuit.

(medicine)

A vascular passage by which blood is diverted from its normal circulatory path; frequently it is a surgical passage created between two blood vessels, but it may also be an anatomical feature.

Shunt

an electrical or magnetic conductor connected in parallel with an electric or magnetic circuit to divert part of the electric current or magnetic flux when it is undesirable or impossible to pass all the current or flux through the circuit. For example, when a shunt is used to extend the measuring range of an ammeter, the current I_x being measured is divided between the shunt and the ammeter in inverse proportion to their respective resistances, R_s and R_A; in this case I_x = I_A (1 + R_A/R_S) = I_Ak_s, where I_A is the value of the current as determined from the ammeter readings and k_s is the shunting factor. For convenience in making current measurements, the resistance of the shunt is chosen so that k_s is equal to 10,100, or 1000.

Shunts are manufactured in the form of plates, bands, and wires, primarily of manganin or constantan (for electrical shunts) or of a soft magnetic material (for magnetic shunts).

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"When I take the bridge," says Captain Hodgson, "you'll see me shunt forty per cent of the lift out of the gas and run her on the upper rudder.

Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard View in context

One summer afternoon, when I had promised to go shrimping along the sands with Philip, I was waiting rather impatiently in the front drawing-room, watching Arthur handle some packets of coins he had just purchased and slowly shunt them, one or two at a time, into his own dark study and museum which was at the back of the house.

The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context

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