Shunt may refer to:
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Shunt (medical), a hole or passage allowing fluid to move from one part of the body to another
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Shunt (electrical)
In electronics, a shunt is a device that creates a low- resistance path for electric current, to allow it to pass around another point in the circuit.Rudolf F. Graf, ''Modern dictionary of Electronics'', Mc-Graw Hill, 1968 Library of Congress 68-1 ...
, a device allowing electric current to pass around a point in a circuit
* Shunt, a British term for
rear-end collision of road vehicles
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Shunt (railway operations), sorting items of rolling stock into trains, also called "switching"
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Shunt (sailing)
The crab claw sail is a fore-and-aft triangular sail with spars along upper and lower edges. The crab claw sail was first developed by the Austronesian peoples some time around 1500 BC. It is used in many traditional Austronesian cultures in Is ...
, a maneuver for sailing upwind on reversible single-outrigger boats
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Shunt (theatre company)
Shunt is a London-based performance collective, founded in 1998. Most of the co-founders of Shunt met at Central School of Speech and Drama in London on the Advanced Theatre Practice MA in 1997/1998, which specializes in collaborative practice.
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, an experimental theatre company based in London
* Shunt, an alternative
metabolic pathway
In biochemistry, a metabolic pathway is a linked series of chemical reactions occurring within a cell. The reactants, products, and intermediates of an enzymatic reaction are known as metabolites, which are modified by a sequence of chemical reac ...
* Shunt, a
house robot in the TV series ''Robot Wars''
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