shunt (sh?nt)n.1. The act or process of turning aside or moving to an alternate course.2. A railroad switch.3. Electricity A low-resistance connection between two points in an electric circuit that forms an alternative path for a portion of the current. Also called bypass.4. Medicine A passage between two natural body channels, such as blood vessels, especially one created surgically to divert or permit flow from one pathway or region to another; a bypass.v. shunt·ed, shunt·ing, shunts v.tr.1. To turn or move aside or onto another course: shunting traffic around an accident.2. To evade by putting aside or ignoring: urgent problems that society can no longer shunt aside.3. To switch (a train or car) from one track to another.4. Electricity To provide or divert (current) by means of a shunt.5. Medicine To divert or permit flow of (a body fluid) from one pathway or region to another by surgical means.v.intr.1. To move or turn aside.2. Electricity To become diverted by means of a shunt. Used of a circuit.[Middle English shunten, to flinch.]shunt?er n.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.shunt (??nt) vb1. to turn or cause to turn to one side; move or be moved aside2. (Railways) railways to transfer (rolling stock) from track to track3. (Electronics) electronics to divert or be diverted through a shunt4. (tr) to evade by putting off onto someone else5. (Motor Racing) (tr) motor racing slang to crash (a car)n6. the act or an instance of shunting7. (Railways) a railway point8. (Electronics) electronics a low-resistance conductor connected in parallel across a device, circuit, or part of a circuit to provide an alternative path for a known fraction of the current9. (Medicine) med a channel that bypasses the normal circulation of the blood: a congenital abnormality or surgically induced10. (Automotive Engineering) informal Brit a collision which occurs when a vehicle runs into the back of the vehicle in front[C13: perhaps from shunen to shun]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014shunt (??nt) v.t. 1. to force or turn aside or out of the way. 2. a. to divert (a part of an electrical current) by connecting a circuit element in parallel with another. b. to place or furnish with a shunt. 3. to shift (railroad rolling stock) from one track to another; switch. 4. to divert (blood or other fluid) by means of a shunt. v.i. 5. to turn to the side. 6. to move back and forth. n. 7. the act of shunting; shift. 8. a conducting element bridged across part of an electrical circuit so as to establish a parallel, alternative path for a portion of the current. 9. a railroad switch. 10. a channel through which blood or other bodily fluid is diverted from its normal path by surgical reconstruction or by a synthetic tube. [1175?1225; Middle English schunten to shy (of horses); obscurely akin to shun] shunt?er, n. 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All rights reserved.shuntPast participle: shuntedGerund: shuntingImperativePresentPreteritePresent ContinuousPresent PerfectPast ContinuousPast PerfectFutureFuture PerfectFuture ContinuousPresent Perfect ContinuousFuture Perfect ContinuousPast Perfect ContinuousConditionalPast ConditionalImperativeshuntshuntPresentI shuntyou shunthe/she/it shuntswe shuntyou shuntthey shuntPreteriteI shuntedyou shuntedhe/she/it shuntedwe shuntedyou shuntedthey shuntedPresent ContinuousI am shuntingyou are shuntinghe/she/it is shuntingwe are shuntingyou are shuntingthey are shuntingPresent PerfectI have shuntedyou have shuntedhe/she/it has shuntedwe have shuntedyou have shuntedthey have shuntedPast ContinuousI was shuntingyou were shuntinghe/she/it was shuntingwe were shuntingyou were shuntingthey were shuntingPast PerfectI had shuntedyou had shuntedhe/she/it had shuntedwe had shuntedyou had shuntedthey had shuntedFutureI will shuntyou will shunthe/she/it will shuntwe will shuntyou will shuntthey will shuntFuture PerfectI will have shuntedyou will have shuntedhe/she/it will have shuntedwe will have shuntedyou will have shuntedthey will have shuntedFuture ContinuousI will be shuntingyou will be shuntinghe/she/it will be shuntingwe will be shuntingyou will be shuntingthey will be shuntingPresent Perfect ContinuousI have been shuntingyou have been shuntinghe/she/it has been shuntingwe have been shuntingyou have been shuntingthey have been shuntingFuture Perfect ContinuousI will have been shuntingyou will have been shuntinghe/she/it will have been shuntingwe will have been shuntingyou will have been shuntingthey will have been shuntingPast Perfect ContinuousI had been shuntingyou had been shuntinghe/she/it had been shuntingwe had been shuntingyou had been shuntingthey had been shuntingConditionalI would shuntyou would shunthe/she/it would shuntwe would shuntyou would shuntthey would shuntPast ConditionalI would have shuntedyou would have shuntedhe/she/it would have shuntedwe would have shuntedyou would have shuntedthey would have shuntedCollins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011shuntA bypass, often used by surgeons to divert blood supply around an obstacle or obstruction.Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited