shunt
verb
[ ʃʌnt ]
• push or pull (a train or part of a train) from the main line to a siding or from one line of rails to another.
• "their train had been shunted into a siding"
• provide (an electrical current) with a conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of the current may be diverted.
• "these components are designed to shunt electrical surges away from microcircuits"
shunt
noun
• an act of pushing or shoving something.
• "the engine turnround was helped by a gravity shunt"
• an electrical conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of a current may be diverted.
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘move suddenly aside’): perhaps from shun.
