(comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance

&mə rez/ plural nounrays which are shorter than X-rays and whichare given off by radioactive substances

a kind of stone used for polishing marble, and copperplates for engravers, informal Shorter name for Yorkshire pudding, a former large county in northern England; in 1974 it was divided into three smaller counties, proper England's largest county. Situated in the north-east England; divided into three ridings, (North, West and East, and The City Of York). Since 1974 for administration purposes local government has used different divisions

An arrangement of lenses or mirrors or both that gathers light, permitting direct observation or photographic recording of distant objects, A telescope with its tube completely filled with water. Such an instrument was used by Airy at Greenwich, about 1870, as part of a zenith-sector, in order to settle by observation certain questions relating to the aberration of light, a telescope which has a simple eyepiece so constructed or used as not to reverse the image formed by the object glass, and consequently exhibits objects inverted, which is not a hindrance in astronomical observations, verb _To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope, crush together or collapse, make smaller or shorter, transitive verb_ to shorten or abridge significantly, Recent To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope, intransitive verb_ To cause to slide inward or outward in overlapping sections, as the cylindrical sections of a small hand telescope do, To make more compact or concise; condense, To slide inward or outward in or as if in overlapping cylindrical sections, adjective_ Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of joints or parts one within the other; telescopic

comparative form of short_ more short, noun_ colloquial A short, a short seller_ one who engages in short selling

Derived from what is primary or original, Relating to, or having a carbon atom that is attached to two other carbon atoms in a molecule, Being a degree of health care intermediate between primary care and tertiary care, as that typically offered at a community hospital, noun_ One of the shorter flight feathers projecting along the inner edge of a bird's wing, One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate or deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer, One that acts in an auxiliary, subordinate, or inferior capacity

A line segment that joins the center of a circle with any point on its circumference, A bounded range of effective activity or influence, A long, prismatic, slightly curved bone in humans, the shorter and thicker of the two forearm bones, located on the lateral side of the ulna

Having the wavelength in the infrared, having or employing wavelengths longer than light but shorter than radio waves; lying outside the visible spectrum at its red end, Having the wavelength in the infrared, noun_ Infrared light or the infrared part of the spectrum, electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength longer than visible light, but shorter than microwave radiation, having a wavelength between 700 nm and 1 mm

Simple past tense and past participle of include, adjective_ enclosed in the same envelope or package, Inclosed; confined, (Bot) such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them

A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay, a change downward, a process of becoming smaller or shorter, verb_ make smaller, decrease in size, extent, or range, transitive verb_ To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually, To make (a quantity) smaller, intransitive verb_ To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc, or in strength, quality, or excellence, Of a quantity, to become smaller