Shunt
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Shunt may refer to:
- Shunt (medical)Shunt (medical)In medicine, a shunt is a hole or a small passage which moves, or allows movement of fluid from one part of the body to another. The term may describe either congenital or acquired shunts; and acquired shunts may be either biological or mechanical.* Cardiac shunts may be described as...
- a hole or passage allowing fluid to move from one part of the body to another - Shunt (electrical)Shunt (electrical)In electronics, a shunt is a device which allows electric current to pass around another point in the circuit. The term is also widely used in photovoltaics to describe an unwanted short circuit between the front and back surface contacts of a solar cell, usually caused by wafer damage.-Defective...
- a device allowing electrical current to pass around a point in a circuit - Shunt (railway operations)Shunt (railway operations)Shunting, in railway operations, involves the process of sorting items of rolling stock into complete train sets or consists. The United States terminology is "switching"....
- the process of sorting items of rolling stock into train sets or consists, also called "switching" - Shunt (theatre company)Shunt (theatre company)Shunt is a theatre company based in London, England, founded in 1998.Between 2004 and 2010, the company produced work in the vaults beneath London Bridge station, a space of considerable size. They then move to a former tobacco warehouse in the district of London Bridge, where they staged weekly...
- an experimental theatre company based in London