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) Short is a surname of English origin. Notable people with this surname include: * Alan Short (1920–2004), California legislator * C. Alan Short (born 1955), British architect and academic * Arthur Short (cricketer) (born 1947), South African c ...

* 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 short snorter is a banknote inscribed by people traveling together on an aircraft. The tradition was started by Alaskan bush flyers in the 1920s and spread through the military and commercial aviation. During World War II short snorters were s ...

, 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