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Definition of Shunt circuit
1. Noun. A closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shunt Circuit
Literary usage of Shunt circuit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Electrical Words, Terms and Phrases by Edwin James Houston (1903)
"A spool or coil of insulated wire placed in a shunt circuit. ... The ampere turns
in the shunt circuit of a shunt- wound or compound-wound dynamo. ..."
2. The Electrical Engineer (1893)
"We shall still have an arrangement in which the current in the shunt circuit of
the wattmeter can be made to be in step with the potential difference ..."
3. Dynamo-electric Machinery: A Manual for Studens of Electrotechnics by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1888)
"THE SHUNT DYNAMO, AND ITS CHARACTERISTIC. IN the shunt dynamo, there are two
circuits to be considered ; the main circuit, and the shunt circuit ..."
4. Dynamo-electric Machinery: A Manual for Students of Electrotechnics by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1886)
"IN the shunt dynamo, there are two circuits to be considered ; the main circuit,
and the shunt circuit. The symbols used have the following meanings. ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1899)
"To correct the wattmeter for the errors caused by charging current in tlie shunt
resistance, a condenser was placed in parallel to the shunt circuit of the ..."
6. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"Path of shunt circuit would be from ( -f- ) or No. 2 terminal on starter to post No.
2 (DYN) on back of fuse block, to rei,-u'a- tor and cut-out bus bar, ..."
7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"The frequency of the alternating current obtained in this shunt circuit depends
on the value of the self-induction and the capacity of the condenser, ..."
8. Electrical Engineer (1892)
"This dynamometer wattmeter had then a shunt circuit «* sisting of the 24 series
of lamp filaments plus the four urn of wire on its movable coil. ..."
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