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Shunt meaning
To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to. | To divert to a less important place, position, or state. | To provide with a shunt.
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Example sentences (20)
LP shunting provides long-term relief in about half the cases; others require revision of the shunt, often on more than one occasion—usually due to shunt obstruction.
Series resistance and shunt admittance are considered as distributed parameters, meaning each differential length of the line has a corresponding differential resistance and shunt admittance.
A few days after his operation, Kevan was discharged home with a shunt implanted in his brain to help prevent pressure from building up in his brain.
For the heavily populated parts of New Orleans and neighboring Jefferson Parish, where barging water is not practical, plans continue for pipelines to shunt fresh water from farther upriver.
A big shunt for George Russell by Turn 7! Virtual safety car is called for and he’s ok.
A shunt – a thin tube surgically inserted into the body – is often used to treat a condition called hydrocephalus, which is caused by too much fluid building up in the brain.
He underwent six brain operations and needed a shunt inserted to ease pressure from fluid build-up on his brain.
Likewise, if you’re in trouble you can shunt weapons power to your shields, except that makes it less likely you’ll be able to defeat the enemies and get the energy you so desperately need.
The rising investments by major economies such as China and the US in smart grids are fueling the shunt reactor circuit market expansion.
We had two shunt reactors in Jebba before this event; however, one broke down.
Babies with hydrocephalus are fitted with a shunt after birth to divert the fluid from the brain, so reducing the risk of increasing cranial pressure, into the abdominal cavity.
If just one shunt is faulty, all or part of a string of lights may not work, as miniature light sets are wired in series, and electricity must flow through each bulb to the next.
Jason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when a lorry ploughed into their stationary vehicles near Sheffield after they were involved in a 'minor shunt'.
The Royal Marsden’s Sutton hospital does not have an intensive care unit and is forced to shunt seriously ill children to St George’s Hospital 40 minutes away.
They also put in a shunt, or small tube, that takes some of the blood going to the body and sends it back to the lungs.
A retrospective case series was performed to include all paediatric patients who received a ventriculo-cholecystic shunt at a single centre, Sheffield Children's Hospital.
Surgeons put a device called a shunt, which diverts blood flow, into his penis along with a urinary catheter, and wrapped it in a compressive bandage.
Bottom: A woman wears a new wearable shunt monitor on her neck.
But the sausage kerb didn’t really do any favors to that shunt.
Chris explained that the average risk of failure for a shunt is about two years.