To shove or turn off to one side, as a car or train from one track to another.

1. A precision low-value resistor placed across the terminals of an ammeter to increase its range by allowing a known fraction of the circuit current to go around the meter. Also known as electric shunt.

2. To place one part in parallel with another.

3. See <<parallel>>

A piece of iron that provides a parallel path for magnetic flux around an air gap in a magnetic circuit.

A vascular passage by which blood is diverted from its normal circulatory path; frequently it is a surgical passage created between two blood vessels, but it may also be an anatomical feature.