shunt
21Shunt — [ʃant ], der; s, s <englisch> (Elektrotechnik parallel geschalteter Widerstand) …
22shunt — ► VERB 1) slowly push or pull (a railway vehicle or vehicles) so as to make up or remove from a train. 2) push or shove. 3) direct or divert to a less important place or position. ► NOUN 1) an act of shunting. 2) Brit. informal a motor accident,… …
23Shunt — En électricité, un shunt est un dispositif de faible impédance qui permet au courant de passer d un point à un autre d un circuit électrique. Dans ce sens général, shunt est quasiment synonyme de court circuit. Sommaire 1 Structure shunt 2 Shunt… …
24Shunt — 1) To move a body fluid, such as cerebrospinal fluid, from one place to another. 2) A catheter (tube) that carries cerebrospinal fluid from a ventricle in the brain to another area of the body. A shunt may be placed to relieve pressure from… …
25Shunt — El término shunt se traduce en español a derivación y se emplea en diversos campos: Shunt en electrónica es un escape eléctrico por pérdida de aislamiento en los conductores. Shunt en arquitectura, designa un conducto de ventilación en baños,… …
26shunt — shunter, n. /shunt/, v.t. 1. to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way. 2. to sidetrack; get rid of. 3. Elect. a. to divert (a part of a current) by connecting a circuit element in parallel with another. b. to place or… …
27shunt — I UK [ʃʌnt] / US verb [transitive] Word forms shunt : present tense I/you/we/they shunt he/she/it shunts present participle shunting past tense shunted past participle shunted to move someone or something to a different place or position,… …
28shunt — v. (d; tr.) to shunt onto, to (to shunt a train onto a siding) * * * [ʃʌnt] to (to shunt a train onto a siding) (d; tr.) to shunt onto …
29shunt — shunt1 [ ʃʌnt ] verb transitive to move someone or something to a different place or position, especially to avoid dealing with them: We can t just shunt patients off to other hospitals. The children are constantly shunted around to various… …
30shunt — {{11}}shunt (n.) 1862, in railway use, from SHUNT (Cf. shunt) (v.). By technicians in the sense of electrical conductor from 1863. Medical use dates from 1923. {{12}}shunt (v.) early 13c., perhaps from shunen to shun (see SHUN (Cf. shun)).… …
