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Short (crater) Short is a Lunar craters, 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 (crater), Moretus, and northeast of Newton (lunar crater), Newt ...

, 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 forme ...

, 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

Companies

Short Brothers Short Brothers plc, usually referred to as Shorts or Short, is an aerospace company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Shorts was founded in 1908 in London, and was the first company in the world to make production aeroplanes. It was particu ...

, a British aerospace company *

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 In 1850 George Short founded a shipyar ...

, a former English shipbuilder

Computing and technology

Short circuit A short circuit (sometimes abbreviated to short or s/c) is an electrical circuit that allows a current to travel along an unintended path with no or very low electrical impedance. This results in an excessive current flowing through the circuit ...

, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit *

Short integer In computer science, an integer is a datum of integral data type, a data type that represents some range of mathematical integers. Integral data types may be of different sizes and may or may not be allowed to contain negative values. Integers are ...

, a computer datatype

Other uses

Short film A short film is a film with a low running time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of not more than 40 minutes including all credits". Other film o ...

, a cinema format, also called a short *

Short (finance) In finance, being short in an asset means investing in such a way that the investor will profit if the market value of the asset falls. This is the opposite of the more common Long (finance), long Position (finance), position, where the inves ...

, stock-trading position *

Short (cricket) Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the cricket ball, ball after it is struck by the Batting (cricket), striking batter, to limit the number of run (cricket), runs that the striker scores and/or to get a ba ...

, fielding positions closer to the batsman *

SHORT syndrome SHORT syndrome is an uncommon autosomal-dominant condition marked by ocular depression, Rieger anomaly, teething delay, small height, hyperextensibility of joints, and/or hernias. It was characterized in 1975. Signs and symptoms The acronym SHO ...

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

Short vowel In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived or actual duration of a vowel sound when pronounced. Vowels perceived as shorter are often called short vowels and those perceived as longer called long vowels. On one hand, many languages do not ...

, a vowel sound of short perceived duration *

Holly Short This is a list of characters in the '' Artemis Fowl'' novel series by Eoin Colfer. Overview * A dark grey cell indicates that the character was not in the property or that the character's presence in the property has yet to be announced ...

, a fictional character in the ''Artemis Fowl'' series

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