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condense
If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts. -
shortcut
a shorter or quicker way. -
shortwave
Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission. -
sidereal time
time measured by the diurnal motion of stars. A sidereal day is about four minutes shorter than a solar day, with hours, minutes, and seconds all proportionally shorter. -
siphon
a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere. -
virelay
an old French form of short poem, composed of short lines running on two rhymes and having two opening lines recurring at intervals.