the Week of Proper 3 / Ordinary 8
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Shunt
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To go aside; to turn off.
(2):
(v. t.) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
(3):
(v. t.) To shun; to move from.
(4):
(v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
(5):
(v. t.) 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.
(6):
(v. t.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
(7):
(v. t.) 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.
(8):
(v. t.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Shunt'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/shunt.html. 1828.
