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| [in phonetics] of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration | ||||
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| limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent | ||||
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| not permanent; not lasting | ||||
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| having little length or lacking in length | ||||
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| primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration | ||||
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| of short duration or distance | ||||
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| concise and succinct | ||||
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| a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound |