Dictionary Definition
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Noun
Derived terms
Translations
path between two points that is faster than the
commonly used paths
- Czech: zkratka
- Finnish: oikotie, oikopolku, oikoreitti
- German: Abkürzung
- Italian: scorciatoia
- Polish: skrót
- Swedish: genväg
symlink
- Finnish: pikakuvake
- German: Verknüpfung, shortcut
- Greek: συντόμευση (syntómefsi)
- Polish: skrót
See also
Extensive Definition
The word shortcut may have the following specific
meanings, besides its generic meaning of a shorter route or smaller
effort.
- Computer shortcut, a file that contains only the location of another file in the computer
- Keyboard shortcuts, a combination of keystrokes that provides easier access to a command or operation
- Shortcut (magazine), a Swedish magazine
- Short Cuts, a 1993 film
- Short Cuts (manga), a Japanese manga
shortcut in Danish: Genvej
shortcut in Spanish: Atajo
shortcut in French: Raccourci
shortcut in Korean: 쇼트컷
shortcut in Japanese: ショートカット
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
air lane, air line, axis, beat, beeline, bypass, chord, circuit, course, cut, cutoff, diagonal, diameter, direct line, directrix, edge, flight path, great-circle
course, itinerary,
line, normal, orbit, path, perpendicular, primrose
path, radius, radius
vector, right line, road,
round, route, run, sea lane, secant, segment, shortest way, side, straight, straight course,
straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streamline, tangent, tour, track, trade route, traject, trajectory, trajet, transversal, vector, walk