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What is a novelette?

What is a novelette? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A short novel. [from 18th c.]
  2. A short piece of lyrical music, especially one for the piano.
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The original novelette, The Bicentennial Man, was one of Asimov's finest pieces of work.
Based on Daphne du Maurier's novelette, the story focuses on a town under siege by increasingly vicious flocks of birds.
Despite his admiration for his father, Michel Tremblay had already by age 17 secretly written a novelette in his school notebooks.
Ding Ling, however, devoted herself to writing, and by 1930 she had completed three collections of short stories and a novelette.
The novelette aside, the overall quality isn't quite up to par with Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, but it's better than I expected.
We're trying to discern the difference between a short story, a vignette, a novella, and a novelette.

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