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   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.]
    To shun; to move from. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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   To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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   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.
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   (Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
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   Shunt , v. i. To go aside; to turn off.
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   Shunt, n. [Cf. D. schuinte slant, slope, declivity. See Shunt, v. t.]
   (Railroad) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
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   (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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   (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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