electrical shunt

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsshuntbypass

   Broaderconductor

   Part ofcircuit

Questions about electrical shunt

What does electrical shunt mean?

electrical shunt means "a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current".

What is another word for electrical shunt?

Close synonyms include shunt, bypass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electrical shunt a common word?

electrical shunt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.