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verb
- 1. 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: "their train had been shunted into a siding"
- 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.
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