Short
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Short may refer to:
Places
[edit]- Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon
- Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
- Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place
People
[edit]Companies
[edit]- Short Brothers, a British aerospace company
- Short Brothers of Sunderland, a former English shipbuilder
Computing and technology
[edit]- Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit
- Short integer, a computer datatype
Other uses
[edit]- Short film, a cinema format, also called a short
- Short (finance), stock-trading position
- Short (cricket), fielding positions closer to the batsman
- SHORT syndrome, a medical condition in which affected individuals have multiple birth defects
- Short vowel, a vowel sound of short perceived duration
- Holly Short, a fictional character in the Artemis Fowl series
See also
[edit]- Short time, a situation in which a civilian employee works reduced hours, or a military person is approaching the end of their enlistment
- Short pastry, one which is rich in butter with a crumbly texture, as in shortbread
- Long (disambiguation)
- Shorter (disambiguation)
- Shorts (disambiguation)
- Shortstown, Bedfordshire, England, named after Short Brothers
- Skort, shorts with a fabric panel resembling a skirt