shunt

To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.

To divert to a less important place, position, or state.

To provide with a shunt.

“to shunt a galvanometer”

computingTo move data in memory to a physical disk.

electricityTo divert electric current by providing an alternative path.

rail transportTo move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.

chiefly road transportinformalUKTo have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.

surgeryTo divert the flow of a body fluid.

An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.

electricityA connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.

firearmsThe shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.

medicineveterinary medicineAn abnormal passage between body channels.

surgeryA passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.

rail transportA switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another.

chiefly road transportinformalUKA minor collision between vehicles.

A passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to anotherbody

“an arteriovenus shunt”

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

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