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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 shunting
 分導流; 分接

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Shunt v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Shunting.]
 1. To shun; to move from. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
 2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
 3. To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift.
    For shunting your late partner on to me.   --T. Hughes.
 4. Elec. To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Shunt·ing, p. pr. & vb. n. of Shunt. Specif.: vb. n. (a) Railroads Switching; as, shunting engine, yard, etc. [British] (b) Finance Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage. [Great Britain]
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