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   Shunt

   /SHənt/

   

   verb

   • 1. push or pull (a train or part of a train) from the main line to a siding or from one track to another: "their train had been shunted into a siding"
   • ▪ push or shove (someone or something): "chairs were being shunted back and forth"
   • ▪ direct or divert (someone or something) to a less important place or position: "amateurs were gradually being shunted to filing jobs"
   • 2. provide (an electrical current) with a conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of the current may be diverted: "these components are designed to shunt electrical surges away from microcircuits"

   noun

   • 1. an act of pushing or shoving something: "the engine turnround was helped by a gravity shunt"
   • 2. an electrical conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of a current may be diverted.
   • ▪ an alternative path for the passage of the blood or other body fluid: "shunt surgery"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘move suddenly aside’): perhaps from shun.

   Scrabble Points: 8

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