Short may refer to:

Places

* Short (crater), 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 ter ...

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

People

* Short (surname) * List of people known as the Short

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 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, f ...

, 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