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), 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), an experimental theatre company based in London
* Shunt, an alternative
metabolic pathway
* Shunt, a
house robot in the TV series ''Robot Wars''
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