<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.</li><li>to sidetrack; get rid of.</li><li>Electricity: to divert (a part of a current) by connecting a circuit element in parallel with another.</li><li>to place or furnish with a shunt.</li><li>Railroads: to shift (rolling stock) from one track to another; switch.</li><li>Surgery: to divert blood or other fluid by means of a shunt; the tube itself.</li><li>to move or turn aside or out of the way.</li><li>(of a locomotive with rolling stock) to move from track to track or from point to point, as in a railroad yard; switch.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of shunting; shift.</li><li>Also called bypass.</li><li>Electricity: a conducting element bridged across a circuit or a portion of a circuit, establishing a current path auxiliary to the main circuit, as a resistor placed across the terminals of an ammeter for increasing the range of the device.</li><li>a railroad switch.</li><li>Surgery: a channel through which blood or other bodily fluid is diverted from its normal path by surgical reconstruction or by a synthetic tube.</li><li>Anatomy: an anastomosis.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Electricity: being, having, or operating by means of a shunt: a shunt circuit; a shunt generator.</li></ul>