shunt
分流,分流器,分流器,分流的
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Definitions
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- : to shove or turn aside or out of the way.
- : to sidetrack; get rid of.
- : Electricity. to divert by connecting a circuit element in parallel with another.to place or furnish with a shunt.
- : Railroads. to shift 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.
- : to move from track to track or from point to point, as in a railroad yard; switch.
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- : 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.
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- : Electricity. being, having, or operating by means of a shunt: a shunt circuit; a shunt generator.
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Examples
It’s possible that, if the cold front is shunted farther south and east, it deflects Elsa’s remnants out to sea after sideswiping the Carolinas.
Even if such investigators are trying to be objective, things understood by the irrational to be important triggers will be shunted off into the “questions remain” category.
The NHL ideally would need to wrap up its postseason before then to ensure that all of the finals games are on NBC and not shunted to a cable network, which would attract far fewer viewers.
So, it’s not that you’re shunting the bad cells to the placenta — and I know it’s semantics — but it’s that you’re selecting for the good cells in the baby and leaving everything else behind.
They are shunted around the nation, with little regard for how far from family they go.
You know, like Nixon tried to shunt responsibility for the break-in on to Liddy, Sturgis, et al.
Television stations can turn down their ads for any reason or shunt them into any time spot.
Instead of attacking neighbors, why not shunt the wrath onto one poor soul who stands in for all would-be enemies?
Once on the subject of jewels, it was difficult to shunt him off on another at short notice.
In place of a shunt, the voltmeter uses a coil of wire of high resistance (see R, Fig. 249) in series with the galvanometer coil.
In other words a voltmeter is connected in shunt, while an ammeter is in series with the circuit as is shown in Fig. 250.
When two or more conductors are connected in parallel each one is said to be a shunt of the others.
The shunt wound dynamo (see Fig. 286) sends a part only of the current produced through the field coils.