Shorter replacement cycle lenses are commonly thinner and lighter, due to lower requirements for durability against wear and tear, and may be the most comfortable in their respective class and generation.

Shorter and lighter barbells can also be used in general fitness training.

Shorter, more approachable games such as Ticket to Ride and Elfenland are usually preferred by the committee that gives out the award.

* Frank Shorter of the United States won the marathon at the Olympic games in Munich, finishing with a time of 2: 12: 19. 8

Shorter pieces are sometimes laid horizontally in shallow trenches and, when covered with a few centimetres of soil, rapidly throw up sucker-like shoots.

Both orthographical variants, with and without the hyphen, are correct, but the hyphenated one has, in addition, a second meaning, not related to animation or cinema: " a device for automatically stopping a machine or engine when something has gone wrong " ( The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1993 edition ).

Shorter boards are typically considered youth size, designed for use by children, though some varieties of short boards are specifically designed for a special purpose, such as the performance of snowboarding tricks.

Shorter sidecut radii ( tighter turns ) are generally used for halfpipe riding while longer sidecut radii ( wider turns ) are used for freeride / alpine / racing riding.

Shorter TTLs can cause heavier loads on an authoritative nameserver, but can be useful when changing the address of critical services like Web servers or MX records, and therefore are often lowered by the DNS administrator prior to a service being moved, in order to minimize disruptions.

Shorter, newer, and Olympic quality tracks tend to be timber or synthetics ; longer, older, or inexpensive tracks are concrete, macadam, or even cinder.

Shorter pitches and smaller goals are used by youth teams.

Shorter repeat sequences tend to suffer from artifacts such as PCR stutter and preferential amplification, as well as the fact that several genetic diseases are associated with tri-nucleotide repeats such as Huntington's disease.

Shorter flights tend to be direct and swift, but longer flights are slightly undulating.

Shorter telomeres are thought to be associated with a greater risk of age-related diseases.

Shorter, rounder wings are found on species that are sedentary and make shorter foraging flights in denser forests and reedbeds.

Shorter rulers are convenient for keeping in a pocket.

Shorter intrastate routes are serviced by many smaller terminals around the city, mainly in downtown.

Shorter pitches and smaller goals are used by under-13s and younger.

Some are of the same type as the ancient epitome, such as various epitomes of the Summa Theologiae of St Thomas Aquinas-originally written as an introductory textbook in theology, and now accessible to very few, except for the learned in theology and Aristotelian philosophy-such as A Summa of the Summa and A Shorter Summa: many epitomes today are published under the general title, " The Companion to ...", such as The Oxford Companion to Aristotle or " An Overview of " or " guides ", such as An Overview of the Thought of Immanuel Kant, How to Read Hans Urs von Balthasar, or, in some cases, as an introduction, in the cases of An Introduction to Søren Kierkegaard or A Very Short Introduction to the New Testament ( many philosophical " introductions " and " guides " share the epitomic form, unlike general " introductions " to a field ).

Shorter columns or struts in compression are stronger than longer ones.

# Shorter sketches, with the needful references, are given in Max Heimbucher, Orden und Kongregationen ( 1896 ), i. § 4j ~ and in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopedie ( 3rd ed.

The nearest that the band ever came to reuniting was when Zawinul and Shorter both played live with Miles Davis on July 10 1991 in Paris ( the only time when Zawinul is known to have shared a live stage with Davis ).

The Westminster Shorter Catechism ( also known simply as the Shorter Catechism, hereinafter referred to as the WSC ) is a catechism that was written in the 1640s by English and Scottish divines.

Shorter wavelengths are known as the ultraviolet ( UV ) part of the spectrum, while longer wavelengths are grouped into the infrared portion of the spectrum.

Although by the 1870s, Charcot was France's best known physician, according to Edward Shorter, his ideas in psychiatry were refuted, and France did not recover for decades.

These pieces are known as the Suite in D major, sometimes referred to as the Little Drottningholm Music, or Shorter Drottningholm Music.

Fielding athletic teams known as the Shorter Hawks, the university is in the process of transitioning athletics from the NAIA and member of the Southern States Athletic Conference to NCAA Division II, at which time it will join the Gulf South Conference.

Shorter University was founded in 1873 by Luther Rice Gwaltney, pastor of the Rome Baptist Church, as a women's college known as the Cherokee Baptist Female College.

Shorter athletic teams are known as the Shorter Hawks.

Shorter scale baritones tend to be tuned C-C or B-B whereas longer ones are typically tuned A-A.

Shorter molecules move faster and migrate farther than longer ones because shorter molecules migrate more easily through the pores of the gel.

Shorter CIDR prefixes match more addresses, while longer prefixes match fewer.

Shorter term bonds generally pay interest only until maturity ; longer term bonds generally are amortized through annual principal payments.

Having reluctantly agreed with Shorter that he would no longer use the band name, Zawinul attempted to reform the Sportin ' Life lineup ( minus Shorter but adding guitarist John Scofield ) under the new name Weather Update.

Shorter or longer timeframes are used for alternately shorter or longer outlooks.

Shorter maceration tends to produce wines suitable for early drinking while prolonged maceration is more suited to wines for longer ageing.

* Shorter and longer ratchets allow the ratchet plus socket to be used in a variety of open or restricted spaces.

Shorter or longer measures are possible for more extreme applications.

Shorter ( around one year ) programs build upon the education already learned in a 2 year PCP training program, while longer ( typically up to two years ) college programs typically cater to PCP who graduated from shorter PCP programs.

Shorter than an emu, but heavier and solidly built, cassowaries prefer thickly vegetated tropical forest.

The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.

Shorter booking, but still a booking.

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

* Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle, by Clement K. Shorter, from Project Gutenberg

Shorter code lengths can be used for palettes smaller than the 256 colors in the example.

In the late 1970s, she began working closely with noted jazz musicians, among them Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny and Charles Mingus, the last of whom asked her to collaborate on his final recordings.

By the end of the summer, Davis had persuaded Wayne Shorter to leave Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and join the quintet.

Shorter became the group's principal composer, and some of his compositions of this era ( including " Footprints " and " Nefertiti ") have become standards.

American marathon runner Frank Shorter, observing the unfolding events from the balcony of his nearby lodging, was quoted as saying, " Imagine those poor guys over there.

Shorter data units and built-in QoS were some of the unique selling points of ATM for applications such as video on demand.

Carter came to fame via the second great Miles Davis quintet in the early 1960s, which also included Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams.

Shorter than most recent general histories and with lots of good illustrations.

Shorter versions of Magna Carta were subsequently issued by British monarchs, and Clause 39 of Magna Carta was renumbered " 29.

The 1995 song Noch koroche dnya (" Night is Shorter than Day ") by the Russian heavy metal band Aria is based on Meursault's encounter with the chaplain in the final scene of the novel.