shunt

1. A railroad switch.

2. Electricity A low-resistance connection between two points in an electric circuit that forms an alternative path for a portion of the current. Also called bypass.

3. Medicine A passage between two natural body channels, such as blood vessels, especially one created surgically to divert or permit flow from one pathway or region to another; a bypass.

4. The act or process of turning aside or moving to an alternate course.

5. a means or mechanism for turning or thrusting aside as.

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1. To turn off to one side.

2. To switch (as a train) from one track to another.

3. To provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt.

4. To divert (blood) from one part to another by a surgical shunt.

5. To move to the side.

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1. Electricity To become diverted by means of a shunt. Used of a circuit.

2. To move or turn aside.

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1. Electricity To provide or divert (current) by means of a shunt.

2. Medicine To divert or permit flow of (a body fluid) from one pathway or region to another by surgical means.

3. To evade by putting aside or ignoring: urgent problems that society can no longer shunt aside.

4. To switch (a train or car) from one track to another.

5. To turn or move aside or onto another course: shunting traffic around an accident.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
shunt	8	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
ut	2
us	2
un	2
nu	2
uh	5
sh	5

3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
hut	6
uts	3
uns	3
tun	3
sun	3
nut	3
nus	3
nth	6
hun	6

4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
nuts	4
shun	7
shut	7
stun	4
thus	7
tuns	4
tush	7
huts	7
hunt	7
huns	7

5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
shunt	8
hunts	8