1an act of pushing or shoving something:the engine turnround was helped by a gravity shuntthe car would turn into a fireball when hit by even quite gentle shunts
British informal a motor accident, especially a collision of vehicles travelling one close behind the other:a lorry shed its load, causing an eight-vehicle shunt
2an electrical conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of a current may be diverted.
Surgery an alternative path for the passage of the blood or other body fluid: [as modifier]:shunt surgery
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Universal
1 [with object and adverbial of direction] push or pull (a train or part of a train) from the main line to a siding or from one line of rails to another:their train had been shunted into a siding
push or shove (someone or something):chairs were being shunted to and fro
direct or divert to a less important place or position:amateurs were gradually being shunted to filing jobs
2 [with object] provide (an electrical current) with a conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of the current may be diverted:these components are designed to shunt electrical surges away from microcircuits
