Definition of Shortest

1. Adjective. (superlative of short); Least in stature, length or height. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shortest

1. short [adj] - See also: short

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shortest

shortcuts
shortcutting
shorted
shorten
shortenable
shortened
shortener
shorteners
shortening
shortening reaction
shortenings
shortens
shorter
shorter-lived
shorter-term
shortest (current term)
shortest-lived
shortest-term
shortfall
shortfalling
shortfallings
shortfalls
shortfin
shortfin mako
shortfins
shortgown
shortgowns
shorthair
shorthaired

Literary usage of Shortest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"From the theory of these equations (see EQUATIONS, a geodesic may cease to be a shortest when prolonged. A string stretched on a surface lies in a geodesic; ..."

2. Philosophical Magazine (1830)
"I shall here shortly explain a different solution of the problem, which I lately obtained ; according to which the shortest distance of two points on the ..."

3. Hermann Von Helmholtz by Leo Koenigsberger (1906)
"Physiol., the other, ' shortest Lines in the Colour System,' communicated to the Academy on December 17, 1891), Helmholtz returns to the conclusions laid ..."

4. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1874)
"To find the equations and the magnitude of the shortest distance between two ... The shortest distance between two lines is a line perpendicular to both, ..."

5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"shortest WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS 1702 On the 29th instant, Daniel Foe, alias, De Foe, stood in the pillory before the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, ..."

6. Publications by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
"... and under suitable restrictions, awarded to those who will accept their use for the shortest period, or pay into the public treasury the largest annual, ..."

7. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"Division by shortest distance to stream.—Some jurisdictions have established a rule for finding the division line between two adjoining riparian owners by ..."

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