shunt circuit

1. 1.

   a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit

   Synonymsparallel circuit

   Broaderclosed circuit

Questions about shunt circuit

What does shunt circuit mean?

shunt circuit means "a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit".

What is another word for shunt circuit?

Close synonyms include parallel circuit. 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 circuit a common word?

shunt circuit 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.