- The common meaning of being small in Length or Height or Time .
- --- A person who is abnormally short is said to have Dwarfism .
- In electrical engineering and electronics, it is an abbreviation for Short Circuit .
- In Finance , the holder of a Short position in a security, such as a stock, owes the security, whereas the holder of a short position in a futures contract has the obligation to sell the underlying at a forward date.
- Short Film s are referred to commonly as "shorts".
- The Short Brothers were British aviation pioneers.
- Walter C. Short was the US Army General in command at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked in 1941
- In Computer Science , Short Integer is a common datatype.
- To have a short time remaining in some period of service, e.g. to have a short period of time left in military service before being honorably discharged ("I'm out in three days - I'm so short I can get hurt falling off a dime!")
Also see Short Form .
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