SHUNT

Shunt

In electronics, a shunt is a device which allows electric current to pass around another point in the circuit by creating a low resistance path. 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. The origin of the term is in the verb 'to shunt' meaning to turn away or follow a different path.

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shunt

Noun

  1. A switch on a railway
  2. A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electric circuit
  3. A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass
  4. A minor collision

Verb

  1. To turn away or aside.
  2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
  3. To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages etc from one train to another.
  4. To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
  5. To divert the flow of a body fluid using surgery.
  6. To move data in memory to a physical disk.
  7. To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
  8. To provide with a shunt.
    to shunt a galvanometer


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