SHORT-TERM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does short-term mean? 

• SHORT-TERM (adjective)
  The adjective SHORT-TERM has 1 sense:

1. relating to or extending over a limited period

  Familiarity information: SHORT-TERM used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHORT-TERM (adjective)

Comparative: shorter-term   
Superlative: shortest-term   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or extending over a limited period

Synonyms:

short-run; short-term

Context example:

short-term credit

Similar:

short (primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration)

 Context examples 

The short-term heat, swelling, and redness of inflammation are a normal part of the body’s protective response to injury or infection.

(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)

A tricyclic antidepressant agent used for short-term treatment of various forms of depression.

(Nortriptyline, NCI Thesaurus)

The assessment considered both short-term and long-term soil effects, such as on nutrients and carbon storage.

(Corn better used as food than biofuel, National Science Foundation)

This agent is usually used in short-term treatment of serious infections due to susceptible strains of Gram-negative bacteria.

(Amikacin, NCI Thesaurus)

Short-term hypoxia can also elevate platelet numbers, while prolonged exposure may cause some degree of thrombocytopenia in response to increased levels of erythropoietin (EPO).

(Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The hydrochloride salt form of nortriptyline, a tricyclic antidepressant agent used for short-term treatment of various forms of depression.

(Nortriptyline Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

While study authors have a good idea why Tabby's Star dims on a long-term basis, they did not address the shorter-term dimming events that happened in three-day spurts in 2017.

(Mysterious Dimming of Tabby's Star May Be Caused by Dust, NASA)

In animal models, short-term therapy with this agent has been shown to provide long-term protection against breast cancer, mimicking the antitumor effects of pregnancy.

(Ethinyl Estradiol, NCI Thesaurus)

New research reveals that short-term memories and long-term memories are formed simultaneously in different parts of the brain, a discovery that challenges our current models of memory formation.

(New Study Challenges Assumptions about How Memories Are Made, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

After acute (short-term) damage hepatocytes are able to regenerate, but after more severe injury they are not.

(Regeneration mechanism discovered in mice could provide target for drugs to combat chronic liver disease, University of Cambridge)