The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shunt \Shunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Shunting.] [Prov. E., to move from, to put off, fr. OE. shunten, schunten, schounten; cf. D. schuinte a slant, slope, Icel. skunda to hasten. Cf. Shun.]
To shun; to move from. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
--Ash.-
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.
For shunting your late partner on to me.
--T. Hughes. (Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
Shunting \Shunt"ing\, p. pr. & vb. n. of Shunt. Specif.: vb. n.
(Railroads) Switching; as, shunting engine, yard, etc.
(Finance) Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage. [Great Britain]
Wiktionary
n. 1 The connection of an electrical component in parallel with another, the current being divided between them. 2 The manipulation of railway rolling stock into different combinations or onto different tracks. 3 (cx UK finance English) arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage. vb. (present participle of shunt English)
Wikipedia
Shunting, in railway operations, is the process of sorting items of rolling stock into complete train sets or consists, or the reverse. In the United States this is known as "switching".
Shunting is an event in the neuron which occurs when an excitatory postsynaptic potential and an inhibitory postsynaptic potential are occurring close to each other on a dendrite, or are both on the soma of the cell.
According to temporal summation one would expect the inhibitory and excitatory currents to be summed linearly to describe the resulting current entering the cell. However, when inhibitory and excitatory currents are on the soma of the cell, the inhibitory current causes the cell resistance to change (making the cell "leakier"), thereby "shunting" instead of completely eliminating the effects of the excitatory input.
Shunting is a concept in neurophysiology.
Shunting may also refer to:
- Ribosome shunting, a mechanism in protein biosynthesis
- Shunting (rail), a rail transport operation
Usage examples of "shunting".
With absolute disregard of his own life, he hurled himself at Bibbs like a football-player shunting off an opponent, and to Mary it seemed that they both went down together.
After the shunting torment of Central Park South the Autocrat got gridlocked in a theatreland sidestreet.
Then, by delicately manipulating the variable condensers and inductances of, his sensitive shunting relay circuits, he slowly shifted that frightful rod of energy from frequency to frequency, staring into the brilliant blank-ness of his micrometer screen as he did so.
A helpful mechanism of my preconsciousness had switched on, shunting both hurt and fear into a sensory limbo beneath my dreams.
Professor Cameron had determined that due to the level of X-ray radiation being emitted by the pulsar, this was the maximum distance the ship could keep and still receive uncorrupted telemetry from the probes once the deflector grid was deployed and began its task of shunting the lethal radiation away from Mestiko.
The fraters who squat beside us on the hilltop presumably are doing such shunting now.
I remember staying late at the office and carefully shunting boxloads of it down into the alley Dumpster, back when the office was on Dunsmuir Street.
Since the loss of the external heat exchangers, they’d been operating in breakeven mode, shunting their small thermal output into the emergency heat storage silo.
He'd tried shunting the feed up to the control room but he kept running into blocks.
Now try shunting the backup power from the RCS actuators to the pyro ignition system.
It is a strange pastoral, a harvest procession it looks like, amid scruffs of pampas grass and the dead creeks, the big train shunting in spasms toward worshippers who lay down its way.
You have line-carrying capacities, and variable loads, and peak load shunting.
There came a long halt at Washington, where Bond heard through his dreams the measured clang of the warning bells on the shunting engines and the soft think-speak of the public-address system on the station.
I had an upper berth at the very end of the car, at some distance from Willard, whose importance in the show secured him a lower in the area where the shock of the frequent shuntings and accordion-like contractions of the train were least felt.