Shunted vs Prolonged - What's the difference?
shunted | prolonged |
(shunt)
fitted with an electrical shunt
(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.
As verbs the difference between shunted and prolonged
is that shunted is (shunt) while prolonged is (prolong).As adjectives the difference between shunted and prolonged
is that shunted is fitted with an electrical shunt while prolonged is lengthy in duration; extended; protracted.shunted
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shunt
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(en verb)- (Ash)
- to shunt a galvanometer