Shunting may refer to: *

Ribosome shunting Ribosome shunting is a mechanism of translation initiation in which ribosomes bypass, or "shunt over", parts of the 5' untranslated region to reach the start codon. However, a benefit of ribosomal shunting is that it can translate backwards allowi ...

, a mechanism in protein biosynthesis *

Shunting (rail) Shunting, in railway operations, is the process of sorting items of rolling stock into complete trains, or the reverse. In the United States this activity is known as switching. Motive power Motive power is normally provided by a locomotive kn ...

, a rail transport operation *

Shunting (neurophysiology) Shunting is an event in the neuron which occurs when an excitatory postsynaptic potential and an inhibitory postsynaptic potential are occurring close to each other on a dendrite, or are both on the Soma (biology), soma of the cell.Kandel, E. R., S ...

, a concept in neurophysiology *

Shunting (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 Isl ...

, a maneuver for sailing upwind

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