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Word: shunt (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electric circuit
  • A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass
  • A switch on a railway
  • informal British A minor collision

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Verb:

  • informal British To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car
  • To divert electric current by providing an alternative path
  • To divert the flow of a body fluid using surgery
  • To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages etc from one train to another
  • To move data in memory to a physical disk
  • To turn away or aside

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