Usually means: Device that redirects electrical current.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. shunt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shunt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shunt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shunt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shunt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shunt, shunt: Wordnik
  7. shunt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shunt: Wiktionary
  9. shunt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shunt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shunt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shunt: Dictionary.com
  13. shunt (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shunt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Shunt (disambiguation), Shunt (electrical), Shunt (medical), Shunt (rail), Shunt (railway operations), Shunt (sailing), Shunt (theatre company), Shunt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shunt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shunt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shunt: Rhymezone
  19. Shunt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Shunt: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. shunt: Free Dictionary
  22. shunt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. shunt: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. shunt: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shunt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Shunt: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  4. Shunt: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. shunt: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. Shunt (medical), shunt: Medical dictionary
  9. Shunt: Brain Injury
  10. Shunt: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shunt, shunt, shunt, shunt: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shunt: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Shunt: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  4. SHUNT: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.
verb:  (transitive) To divert to a less important place, position, or state.
verb:  (transitive) To provide with a shunt.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To move data in memory to a physical disk.
verb:  (transitive, electricity) To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
verb:  (transitive, rail transport) To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly road transport, informal, British) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
verb:  (transitive, surgery) To divert the flow of a body fluid.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, British, dialectal) To turn aside or away; to divert.
verb:  (finance, UK, historical) To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.
noun:  An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.
noun:  (electricity) A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.
noun:  (firearms) 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.
noun:  (medicine, veterinary medicine) An abnormal passage between body channels.
noun:  (surgery) A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.
noun:  (rail transport) A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another.
noun:  (chiefly road transport, informal, British) A minor collision between vehicles.

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