Short

Short may refer to:

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, a vowel sound of short perceived duration
  • Extra-short, a speech sound, such as a reduced vowel, of particularly short duration

See also

• Long (disambiguation)
• Shorter (disambiguation)
• Shorts (disambiguation)
• Skort, shorts with a fabric panel resembling a skirt