Extending or traveling not far or not far enough, Easily provoked; irascible, Being of relatively brief duration. Used of a syllable in quantitative prosody, adverb_ Abruptly; quickly, At a point before a given boundary, limit, or goal, By means of a short sale, noun_ Something short, as, A size of clothing less long than the average for that size, A byproduct of wheat processing that consists of germ, bran, and coarse meal or flour, intransitive verb_ To cause a short circuit in, To short-sell (a security or index), To short-circuit

the art or science of keeping accounts; the principles or methods of account-keeping; accountancy, a system that provides quantitative information about finances

Expressed or expressible as a quantity, Of, relating to, or susceptible of measurement, Of or relating to number or quantity, Of or relating to a metrical system based on the duration of syllables rather than on stress. Used especially of classical Greek and Latin verse, relating to the measurement of quantity

An inherent or distinguishing characteristic; a property, A personal trait, especially a character trait, Essential character; nature, Superiority of kind, Degree or grade of excellence, That from which anything can be said to be such or such; a character expressible by an adjective admitting degrees of comparison, but not explicitly relative nor quantitative_ thus, blueness, hardness, agility, and mirthfulness are qualities

Operated or produced by a mechanism or machine, Of or relating to manual labor, its tools, and its skills, Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter on a macroscopic scale, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, electrical, electronic, atomic etc., noun_ obsolete A mechanic, A layout consisting of type proofs, artwork, or both, exactly positioned and prepared for making an offset or other printing plate

The study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and sets, using numbers and symbols, That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations, A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels