shunt
shunt is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To shun; to move from. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To shun; to move from.
- transitive verb. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
- intransitive verb. To go aside; to turn off.
- transitive verb. A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. 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. implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
- noun. a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
- noun. a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another
"an arteriovenus shunt"
- verb. transfer to another track, of trains
- verb. provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shunt:
Common word forms
shunts, shunted, shunter, shunting
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