Fit
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Fit and FIT have several meanings.
Fit can refer to:
- Physical fitness, how well a person is suited for physical tasks.
- Fitness (biology), how capable a being is at successfully passing on its genes.
- A seizure, or any other sudden occurrence of a symptom or unusual behavior.
- In tailoring, how well clothing conforms to the wearer's body (as in "a good fit"). "To fit" is also a verb for adjusting clothing to better suit a wearer.
- Honda Fit (also known as Honda Jazz), a 5-door hatchback car.
In linguistics:
- A section or part of a poem, as used by Lewis Carroll. This meaning was blended with the idea of seizures in Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark, which was described as "an agony in eight fits." This was also borrowed for the episodes of the radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
- In the Doric dialect (Scotland), several context-dependent meanings, such as what.
- Physical attractiveness, in British slang, usually with sexual connotations, generally used to describe an attractive woman.
The acronym FIT can stand for:
- Failures In Time, a unit rate of failure, used in reliability engineering.
- Fashion Institute of Technology, an American college, part of the State University of New York.
- Federation of International Touch, the governing body of a version of Touch (Rugby) Football.
- Filton Abbey Wood railway station has National Rail code FIT.
- Five Intersecting Tetrahedra, a compound solid shape.
- Florida Institute of Technology, an American college.
- FrameworkForIntegratedTest, an open-source software tool for automated customer tests.
- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, a German institute operated by the Fraunhofer Society .
- International Federation of Translators, a global organization of national translation organizations.
- Forever In Terror, a heavy metal band from Streetsboro, OH
- Free Independent Traveler, a small number of tourists (usually fewer than 5 persons) who take packaged tours at a time of their own choice.
- Fast Issue Track, issue resolutions software.