Shunt

1. v. t. The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
2. v. t. To shun; to move from.
3. v. t. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
4. v. t. To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift.
5. v. t. To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
6. v. i. To go aside; to turn off.
7. v. t. A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
8. v. t. A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.