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Derivation vs Shunt - What's the difference?

derivation | shunt |

As nouns the difference between derivation and shunt

is that derivation is diversion while shunt is a switch on a railway.

As a verb shunt is

(obsolete|uk|dialect) to turn away or aside.

derivation

Noun

(en noun)
  • A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
  • The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
  • The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Indo-European root.
  • The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
  • That from which a thing is derived.
  • That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
  • (mathematics) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.
  • (medicine) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
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    shunt

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To turn away or aside.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
  • (Ash)
  • To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages etc from one train to another.
  • To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
  • To divert the flow of a body fluid using surgery.
  • To move data in memory to a physical disk.
  • (informal, British) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
  • To provide with a shunt.
  • to shunt a galvanometer

    Noun

    (wikipedia shunt) (en noun)
  • A switch on a railway
  • A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electric circuit
  • A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass
  • (informal, British) A minor collision
  • (firearms) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
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