| English | Chinese simplified |
| open shortest path first | 开放最短路径优先 (A routing protocol for Internet Protocol (IP) networks. OSPF allows a router to calculate the shortest path to each node for sending messages. The router sends information on the nodes it is linked to, called link-state advertisements, to other routers on the network to accumulate link-state information to make its calculations) |
| short date | 简写日期 (The standard short formats to display a date. For example: MM/dd/yy; dd/MM/yy) |
| short grain | 短粒度 (Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a type of paper which grain direction runs parallel to the short edge of the sheet) |
| Short Message Service | 短信服务 (A service for wireless products that allows users to send and receive brief messages consisting of text and numbers to and from mobile phones and devices) |
| short name | 短名称 (A valid MS-DOS or OS/2 8.3 file name (with up to 8 characters followed by a period and an extension of up to 3 characters) that a computer running any member of the Windows Server2003 family, or any similar operating system, creates for every Macintosh folder name or file name on the server. Personal computer users refer to files on the server by their short names; Macintosh users refer to them by their long names) |
| short-term debt | 短期债务 (A current obligation that is payable within one year) |
| Short tones | 短按键音 (A setting for the phone keyboard that causes a key to produce a short duration tone regardless of how long the key is pressed) |
