n.

1. An undersized animal, especially the smallest animal of a litter.
2. Offensive. A short person.

[Origin unknown.]

runtiness runt'i·ness n.
runty runt'y adj.

The frame that remains after a collision on a CSMA/CD medium such as Ethernet. Runts are undersize packets, smaller than what the network protocol calls for, such as 64 bytes in Ethernet. Electrical interference or faulty wiring can also produce a runt. It is the opposite of an oversize packet, termed a "giant." See runt filtering.

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Small, stunted, weak; an undersized offspring. See also intrauterine growth retardation.

• r. disease — disease produced by immunologically competent cells in a foreign host that is unable to reject them, resulting in gross retardation of host development and in death. Classically observed in neonatal mice given bone marrow or leukocytes from an adult, genetically different strain of mice; a form of graft versus host disease.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - lille gris, lille myr, romerdue, lille okse

Nederlands (Dutch)
rund, iets kleins, soort duif

Français (French)
n. - petit dernier (littér), avorton (péj)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kleinster, kleine Person

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μικροσκοπικό ζώο, ζωάκι, κοντοπίθαρος, στούμπος

Italiano (Italian)
nano

Português (Portuguese)
n. - animal nanico (m), baixinho (m)

Русский (Russian)
карлик, низкорослое животное

Español (Spanish)
n. - animal diminuto, gorgojo, enano

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - dvärg, knatte, liten ko

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
小家畜, 小矮子, 小植物, 发育不良的矮小动物

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 小家畜, 小矮子, 小植物, 發育不良的矮小動物

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 작은 동물, 꼬마, 집비둘기의 일종

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 小さな動物, ちび

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) القزم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮לא מפותח, ננס, יונה גדולה, חית-בית קטנה (שור, פרה, חזיר וכו')‬

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