Short Explained

Short may refer to:

Places

• 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

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

Companies

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

Computing and technology

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

Other uses

• 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

• 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