shunt

1. 1.

   transfer to another track, of trains

   Broadertransfer
2. 2.

   provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

   Broaderdeviate

Other forms of shunt

plural

shunts·

past tense

shunted·

present participle

shunting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shunt

What does shunt mean?

shunt means "a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shunt?

shunt has 1 syllable: shunt. In IPA it is /ˈʃʌnt/.

What is another word for shunt?

Close synonyms include electrical 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 shunt a common word?

shunt is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.