Look up PIT, pit, or pits in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Pit or PIT may refer to:

Structure

• Ball pit, a recreation structure
• Casino pit, the part of a casino which holds gaming tables
• Trapping pit, pits used for hunting
• Pit (motor racing), an area of a racetrack where pit stops are conducted
• Trading pit, a part of a trading floor where open outcry takes place
• Pit cave, a natural cave containing a vertical shaft
• Mine (mining)
  • Open-pit mine, surface extraction of rock or minerals
  • Coal mine or pit

Science and technology

• Pit, an excavation on metallic surface caused by pitting corrosion
• Pit, one of many indentations used to store data on a compact disc
• Pit (botany), a part of plant cell walls which allows the exchange of fluids
• Pit (nuclear weapon), the core of an implosion weapon
• Pit bull, a breed of dog
• PIT tag, Passive Integrated Transponder for RFID system
• Powered industrial truck, a US legal term
• Point in time, time and date something took place
• Probability integral transform, a theorem in probability and statistics
• Programmable interval timer, a computing device
• Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion
• Pyrena or pit, the hard seed-bearing kernel inside drupe fruits such as peaches, olives and cherries
• Boolean prime ideal theorem, which guarantees the existence of certain types of subsets in a given abstract algebra
• 2-Propanoyl-3-(4-isopropylphenyl)-tropane, a cocaine analog
• As a file extension, .pit stands for Partition Information Table

Arts and entertainment

Games

• Pit (game), a Parker Brothers card game simulating a commodities exchange
• Pit (Kid Icarus), the main character in the video game series Kid Icarus

Music

• Front ensemble, the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps
• Mosh pit, an area for dancing at a concert
• Orchestra pit, the area in a theater, between the stage and audience, in which musicians perform

Places

United States

• Pit River, a watershed in California
• Peoples Improv Theater, a venue in New York City
• Pittsburgh (abbreviation), a city in Pennsylvania
• Pittsburgh International Airport (IATA code)

Sports

An abbreviation for Pittsburgh sports teams, such as:

• Pittsburgh Steelers, a football team in the NFL
• Pittsburgh Pirates, a baseball team in MLB
• Pittsburgh Penguins, a hockey team in the NHL
• Pittsburgh Condors, a former basketball team in the NBA

Transport

• Palitana railway station, Gujarat, India, Indian Railways station code PIT

Other uses

• Party of Independence and Labour (French: Parti de l'Indépendance et du Travail), a Senegalese political party
• Ivorian Workers' Party (French: Parti ivoirien des travailleurs), an Ivorian political party
• PIT maneuver, a ramming tactic used by law enforcement in vehicle pursuits
• Pit Martin (1943–2008), Canadian National Hockey League player

See also

• Bolshoy Pit, a tributary of the Yenisei, Russia
• Pituitary-specific positive transcription factor 1 (PIT-1), a gene
• The Pit (disambiguation)
• Pitt (disambiguation)
• Pitts (disambiguation)
• Bottomless pit (disambiguation)
• Cockpit
• Hole (disambiguation)
• Fossa (disambiguation), (Latin for pit)
• All pages with titles beginning with Pit
• All pages with titles containing Pit

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