Shunt is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHUNT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to turn aside
• push or pull (a train or part of a train) from the main line to a siding or from one line of rails to another
• push or shove (someone or something)
• direct or divert to a less important place or position
• provide (an electrical current) with a conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of the current may be diverted
• move (objects or people) to a different position
• To shun; to move from.
• To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
• 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.
• To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
• To go aside; to turn off.
• A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
• 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.
• 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.
• transfer to another track, of trains
• provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
NOUN:
• an act of pushing or shoving something
• a motor accident, especially a collision of vehicles travelling one close behind the other
• 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
• a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another
• a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
• implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
• shunting

Words related to SHUNT

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Words that contain SHUNT

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How to use SHUNT in a sentence

• When shut it would close the main channel and shunt into the booms the logs floating in the river.
• In this time he succeeded by the severest efforts in establishing a rough shunt into the new channel.
• Like the inhabitants of a certain country village in the North of England, if you wanted distraction at Ludd you went to the station and watched the trains shunt.
• Such a line possesses negligible resistance, inductance, and shunt capacity.
• The one at the left shows the simple shunt, adapted to short-circuit the generator at all times save when it is in operation.
• The generator shunt, as already described in Chapter VIII, normally keeps the generator shunted out of circuit.
• When, however, the generator is operated the shunt is broken, which allows the armature of the generator to come into the circuit in series with the winding of the polarized bell.
• The generator of Station A is not in the circuit of voice currents, however, because of the automatic shunt with which the generator is provided, as described in Chapter VIII.
• If he had read the Preface he would know that it meant a SHUNT.
• He would know that a SHUNT means that passengers are enabled to continue their journey by changing into the next train.

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