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Commonly used terms in the Electrical industry.
shunt DC machine
a DC machine with the field winding connected in shunt with the armature. In shunt generators, residual magnetism must be present in the machine iron in order to initiate the generation process. These machines are also known as self-excited, since they supply their own excitation.