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Yes, shunt is playable

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"Shunt" Definition

noun

A railroad switch.
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.
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.
The act or process of turning aside or moving to an alternate course.
a means or mechanism for turning or thrusting aside as.

verb

To turn off to one side.
To switch (as a train) from one track to another.
To provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt.
To divert (blood) from one part to another by a surgical shunt.
To move to the side.

verb-intransitive

Electricity To become diverted by means of a shunt. Used of a circuit.
To move or turn aside.

verb-transitive

Electricity To provide or divert (current) by means of a shunt.
Medicine To divert or permit flow of (a body fluid) from one pathway or region to another by surgical means.
To evade by putting aside or ignoring: urgent problems that society can no longer shunt aside.
To switch (a train or car) from one track to another.
To turn or move aside or onto another course: shunting traffic around an accident.

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