Short

Short may refer to:

Arts, media, and entertainment

• Short film, a cinema format (also called film short or short subject)
• Short story, prose generally readable in one sitting

Companies

• 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

Medical and psychological

• Short stature, below average height
• SHORT syndrome, a medical condition in which affected individuals have multiple birth defects
• Shortness of breath
• Shortness of temper

People

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

Places

• Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon
• Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
• Short, Oklahoma

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
  • Extra-short, a particularly short-duration vowel

See also

• Short time
• Short time, a US military person with a short time remaining on their enlistment
  • The Short-Timers
• Shorter (disambiguation)
• Shorts (disambiguation)
• Long (disambiguation)