Shunt vs Resistance - What's the difference?
shunt | resistance |
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To turn away or aside.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
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.
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.
The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
(physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.
As nouns the difference between shunt and resistance
is that shunt is a switch on a railway while resistance is resistance (all meanings).As a verb shunt
is (obsolete|uk|dialect) to turn away or aside.shunt
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Verb
(en verb)- (Ash)
- to shunt a galvanometer
Noun
(wikipedia shunt) (en noun)Anagrams
*resistance
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Alternative forms
* resistaunce (obsolete)Noun
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}
