Short may refer to:

Places

Short (crater) Short is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern regions of the Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its par ...

, a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon *

Short, Mississippi Short is an unincorporated community in Tishomingo County, Mississippi, United States. It was one of the earliest settlements in the county, and once had its own post office, a high school, a bowling alley, and three bars; but most of its former te ...

, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place

People

* Short (surname) *

List of people known as the Short The epithet the Short applies to the following: *Dionysius Exiguus (), a monk, inventor of the Anno Domini era * Otto VI, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel (1303), member of the House of Ascania and co-ruler of Brandenburg *Pepin the Short (768), ...

Arts, entertainment, and media

Short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

, a cinema format (also called film short or short subject) *

Short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...

, 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 Short Brothers plc, usually referred to as Shorts or Short, is an aerospace company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Shorts was founded in 1908 in London, and was the first company in the world to make production aeroplanes. It was particu ...

, a British aerospace company * Short Brothers of Sunderland, former English shipbuilder

Computing and technology

Short circuit A short circuit (sometimes abbreviated to short or s/c) is an electrical circuit that allows a current to travel along an unintended path with no or very low electrical impedance. This results in an excessive current flowing through the circu ...

, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit * Short integer, a computer datatype

Finance

Short (finance) In finance, being short in an asset means investing in such a way that the investor will profit if the value of the asset falls. This is the opposite of a more conventional "long" position, where the investor will profit if the value of the ...

, stock-trading position *

Short snorter A short snorter is a banknote inscribed by people traveling together on an aircraft. The tradition was started by Alaskan bush flyers in the 1920s and spread through the military and commercial aviation. During World War II short snorters were s ...

, 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 Shortbread or shortie is a traditional Scottish biscuit usually made from one part white sugar, two parts butter, and three to four parts plain wheat flour. Unlike many other biscuits and baked goods, shortbread does not contain any leavening, ...

Shortening Shortening is any fat that is a solid at room temperature and used to make crumbly pastry and other food products. Although butter is solid at room temperature and is frequently used in making pastry, the term ''shortening'' seldom refers to b ...

, any kind of fat which creates a crumbly pastry

Healthcare

Short stature Short stature refers to a height of a human which is below typical. Whether a person is considered short depends on the context. Because of the lack of preciseness, there is often disagreement about the degree of shortness that should be called ' ...

, below average height *

SHORT syndrome SHORT syndrome is a medical condition in which affected individuals have multiple birth defects in different organ systems. It was characterized in 1975. Presentation SHORT is an acronym for short stature, hyperextensibility of joints and/or ...

, a medical condition in which affected individuals have multiple birth defects *

Shortness of breath Shortness of breath (SOB), also medically known as dyspnea (in AmE) or dyspnoea (in BrE), is an uncomfortable feeling of not being able to breathe well enough. The American Thoracic Society defines it as "a subjective experience of breathing di ...

, the feeling that one cannot breathe well enough

Other uses

Short (cricket) Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the striking batter, to limit the number of runs that the striker scores and/or to get a batter out by either catching a hit ball before ...

, fielding positions closer to the batsman *

Short time Short-time working or short time (in German: ) is a governmental unemployment insurance system in which private sector employees agree to or are forced to accept a reduction in working time and pay, with the state making up for all or part of the ...

, a situation in which a civilian employee works reduced hours, or a military person is approaching the end of their enlistment *

Short vowel In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration. In some languages vowel length is an important phonemic factor, meaning vowel length can change the meaning of the word, ...

, a vowel sound of short perceived duration **

Extra-short The International Phonetic Alphabet uses a breve to indicate a speech sound (usually a vowel) with extra-short duration. That is, is a very short vowel with the quality of . An example from English is the short schwa of the word ''police'' . Th ...

, a speech sound, such as a reduced vowel, of particularly short duration