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TO SHUNT

Definition: SHUNT

SHUNT

Noun

1. A passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt".

2. A conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current.

3. Implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body.

Verb

1. Transfer to another track, of trains.

2. Provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: TO SHUNT

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

Said of a current, to divert or be diverted by a shunt. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: TO SHUNT

Specialty definitions using "TO SHUNT": CAR-RETARDER OPERATOR, CELL REPAIRERrailroad-car retarder operator, retarder operator. (references)

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Modern Translation: TO SHUNT

Language Translations for "TO SHUNT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

shunte. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

shunt (shunt). (various references)

   

French

  

dériver (to derive). (various references)

   

German

  

shunten, rangieren (rank, shove, shunt, shunting, switch), parallel schalten (shunt). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

να διακλαδωθεί. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tolat (shunt, to back the car, to reverse), félretol (push aside, to throw back), áttol (push through, to put through, to traverse). (various references)

   

Italian

  

shuntare, inserire in parallelo. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay untshay

   

Portuguese

  

derivar (accrue, branch, derive, drift, originate, result). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

derivar (derive, shunt). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO SHUNT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-n-o-s-t-t-u"

-2 letters: hunts, shott, shout, shunt, snout, south, stout, stunt, thous, tonus, touts.

-3 letters: hons, host, hots, huns, hunt, huts, nosh, nous, nuts, onus, oust, outs, shot, shun, shut, snot, soth, stun, thou, thus, tons, tosh, tost, tots, tout, tuns, tush, tuts, unto.

-4 letters: hon, hot, hun, hut, noh, nos, not, nth, nus, nut, ohs.

 Words containing the letters "h-n-o-s-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: outhunts.

 

+2 letters: nontruths, outthanks, outthinks.

 

+3 letters: buttonbush, muttonfish, pothunters, thousandth, touchstone.

 

+4 letters: autochthons, buttonholes, buttonhooks, countershot, fourteenths, muttonchops, naturopaths, outhustling, outshooting, outshouting, pothuntings, thousandths, touchstones, unworthiest.

 

+5 letters: autochthones, buttonbushes, buttonholers, cottonmouths, countermyths, countershots, glutathiones, habituations, housesitting, muttonfishes, outthrusting, shortcutting, silhouetting, southeastern, southernmost, southwestern, thunderbolts, thunderstone, thunderstorm.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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