to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.

to sidetrack; get rid of.

Electricity .

to divert (a part of a current) by connecting a circuit element in parallel with another.

to place or furnish with a shunt.

Railroads . to shift (rolling stock) from one track to another; switch.

Surgery .

to divert blood or other fluid by means of a shunt.

the tube itself.

to move or turn aside or out of the way.

(of a locomotive with rolling stock) to move from track to track or from point to point, as in a railroad yard; switch.

the act of shunting; shift.

Also called bypass. 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.

a railroad switch.

Surgery . a channel through which blood or other bodily fluid is diverted from its normal path by surgical reconstruction or by a synthetic tube.

Anatomy . an anastomosis.

Electricity . being, having, or operating by means of a shunt

a shunt circuit; a shunt generator.