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To shun; to move from. |
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To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to
shove. |
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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. |
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To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer. |
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To go aside; to turn off. |
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A turning off to a side or short track, that the
principal track may be left free. |
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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. |
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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. |
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