2syllables
shunting
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Definitions ofshunting
1verb
- To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.
Synonyms: shove
- To divert to a less important place, position, or state.
- To provide with a shunt.
Example: "to shunt a galvanometer"
- To move data in memory to a physical disk.
- To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
- To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.
- To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
- To divert the flow of a body fluid.
- To turn aside or away; to divert.
1noun
- The connection of an electrical component in parallel with another, the current being divided between them.
- The manipulation of railway rolling stock into different combinations or onto different tracks.
- Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage.
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