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Shunts meaning
plural of shunt
Example sentences (12)
Syringomyelia shunts are not always successful and can become blocked as with other central nervous system shunts.
In the 3½-minute video, Haley shunts aside, ignores or demonizes the differences that influence the ways people view this country and their place in it.
Because of the mass, narrow pieces of tubing called “shunts” were implanted into Maddy’s brain.
Ayrton shunt switching principle To make a multi-range ammeter, a selector switch can be used to connect one of a number of shunts across the meter.
Given the reduced need for revisions in ventricular shunts, it is possible that this procedure will become the first-line type of shunt treatment.
If the signal is large, then the PIN diode starts to conduct and becomes a resistor that shunts most of the signal to ground.
In some applications increased leakage is desired, and long magnetic paths, air gaps, or magnetic bypass shunts may deliberately be introduced in a transformer design to limit the short-circuit current it will supply.
It is easily adapted to read heavier currents by using shunts (resistances in parallel with the basic movement) or to read voltage using series resistances known as multipliers.
Shunts are rated by full-scale current, and often have a voltage drop of 50 mV at rated current.
Shunts are used in both the communicating and noncommunicating forms of the disorder.
Stirling piston engine Rhombic Drive – Beta Stirling Engine Design, showing the second displacer piston (green) within the cylinder, which shunts the working gas between the hot and cold ends, but produces no power itself.
Switched shunts are rarely used for currents above 10 amperes.