Shunt

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A shunt in general is a sort of relief valve, or diverter. See:

• shunt (medical)
• shunt (electrical)

See also: shunter (railway locomotive)

In railway operations, "shunting" involves the process of sorting items of rolling stock into complete train sets or consists. The American equivalent is "switching". See:

• shunt (railway operations)

• Shunt is also a British motor racing term, indicating that a vehicle has spun out or has otherwise left the approved course.

• In British mobile video content production 'shunt' is used as a term to indicate the process of sending a piece of unencoded video to a third party to be encoded into a format that can be downloaded onto mobile phones. Previously this process was known as 'publishing'. However confusion arose as loading encoded content onto phones was also known as publishing. The term 'shunting' in this context was first coined by team at Virgin Mobile Bites in May 2006

• Shunt is also the name of an experimental theatre company based in London: [1]

• Shunt (climbing terminology)
• A "shunt" is a piece of climbing equipment (or hardwear) made by the french firm Petzl. It is a one way locking device that will pass along a rope in one direction, but lock when moved in the opposite direction. If fixed, it will have a similar effect, allowing the rope to pass through it in one direction, but not in the reverse direction. It is a mechanical device similar to many other ascenders. Often used for climbing a rope, or as a form of lock in a hauling or safety system.