Short
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Short or shortness may refer to:
General use
- A person of short stature
- Something of small length
- Something of small time
People
Places
- Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon
- Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
- Short, Oklahoma
Medical and psychological
- SHORT syndrome, a medical condition in which affected individuals have multiple birth defects
- Shortness of breath
- Shortness of temper
Arts, media, and entertainment
- Short film, a cinema format (also called short subject)
- Short story or eshort (a short story published in digital form)
Finance
- Short (finance), stock-trading position
- Short snorter, a banknote signed by fellow travelers, common during World War II
Computing and technology
- Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit
- Short integer, a computer datatype
Enterprises
- Short Brothers, a British aerospace company
- Short Brothers of Sunderland, former English shipbuilder
Foodstuffs
- Shortening, any kind of fat which creates a crumbly pastry
- A short pastry, one which is rich in butter with a crumbly texture, as in shortbread
Other uses
- Short (cricket), an attribute applied to fielding positions
- Short, a partially smoked cigarette that has been saved for later use
- Short vowel, a linguistic term (see also extra-short)
See also
- Short time
- Short time, a US military person with a short time remaining on their enlistment
- Shorter (disambiguation)
- Shorts (disambiguation)
- Long (disambiguation)
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