Short
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Short may refer to:
  • Short circuit
    Short circuit
    A short circuit in an electrical circuit that allows a current to travel along an unintended path, often where essentially no electrical impedance is encountered....

    , an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit
  • Short (finance), stock-trading position
  • Short film, a cinema format
  • Short subject
    Short subject
    A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: 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 or less, including all...

    , a cinema format used almost interchangeably with short film
  • Short integer, a computer datatype
  • Short (cricket), an attribute among fielding position modifiers in cricket
  • Short Brothers
    Short Brothers
    Short Brothers plc is a British aerospace company, usually referred to simply as Shorts, that is now based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Founded in 1908, Shorts was the first company in the world to make production aircraft and was a manufacturer of flying boats during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s...

    , a British aerospace company
  • Short Brothers of Sunderland
    Short Brothers of Sunderland
    Short Brothers Limited was a British shipbuilding company formed in 1850 and based at Pallion, Sunderland since 1869. The company closed in 1964 when it failed to invest to build bigger ships.-19th century:...

    , former English shipbuilder
  • A short person is one of lower human height
    Human height
    Human height is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body standing erect.When populations share genetic background and environmental factors, average height is frequently characteristic within the group...

  • A partially smoked cigarette
    Cigarette
    A cigarette is a small roll of finely cut tobacco leaves wrapped in a cylinder of thin paper for smoking. The cigarette is ignited at one end and allowed to smoulder; its smoke is inhaled from the other end, which is held in or to the mouth and in some cases a cigarette holder may be used as well...

     that has been saved for later use
  • SHORT syndrome
    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:...

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

Places

  • Short, Mississippi
    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 territory and its establishments were drowned by the...

    , an unincorporated community
  • Short, Oklahoma
    Short, Oklahoma
    Short is a census-designated place in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 328 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...

  • Short (crater)
    Short (crater)
    Short is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern regions of the Moon, on the near side. It lies just to the south of the larger, prominent crater Moretus, and northeast of Newton....

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

See also

  • Short (surname)
    Short (surname)
    Short as a surname may refer to:* Alan Short , California legislator* Augustus Short , British-born Australian religious leader* Bob Short , American sports team owner* Bobby Short , American musician...

  • List of people known as the Short
  • Shorts (disambiguation)
    Shorts (disambiguation)
    Shorts are a garment.Shorts may also refer to:*Shorts , a 2009 film directed by Robert Rodriguez*Shors, another spelling for a people in Russia*Short films, commonly called simply "shorts"...

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