Short
Short may refer to:
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Places
- Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon
- Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
- Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Short film, a cinema format (also called film short or short subject)
- Short story, prose generally readable in one sitting
- The Short-Timers, a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel by Gustav Hasford, about military short-timers in Vietnam
Brands and enterprises
- Short Brothers, a British aerospace company
- Short Brothers of Sunderland, former English shipbuilder
Computing and technology
- Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit
- Short integer, a computer datatype
Finance
- Short (finance), stock-trading position
- Short snorter, a banknote signed by fellow travelers, common during World War II
Foodstuffs
- Short pastry, one which is rich in butter with a crumbly texture, as in shortbread
- Shortening, any kind of fat which creates a crumbly pastry
Healthcare
- Short stature, below average height
- SHORT syndrome, a medical condition in which affected individuals have multiple birth defects
- Shortness of breath, the feeling that one cannot breathe well enough
Other uses
- Short (cricket), fielding positions closer to the batsman
- Short time, a situation in which a civilian employee works reduced hours, or a military person is approaching the end of their enlistment
- Short vowel, a vowel sound of short perceived duration
- Extra-short, a speech sound, such as a reduced vowel, of particularly short duration
See also
- Long (disambiguation)
- Shorter (disambiguation)
- Shorts (disambiguation)
- Skort, shorts with a fabric panel resembling a skirt
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