Hit

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Hit means to strike, cause to come into contact with forcefully, or deal a blow to an object.

The word hit or hits can also mean:

• in American football, where a defensive or special teams player successfully makes a particularly aggressive tackle by running hard into the opposing player.
• in archery and in target shooting, striking the exact desired spot, commonly the center of a target.
• in baseball, the act of safely reaching first base, or any other base after batting the ball into fair territory; see hit (baseball).
• in blackjack, when a player asks the dealer for another card (e.g. "hit me").
• in computer and video games, martial arts, or military slang, successfully striking an opponent with a weapon (including one's own fist, elbow, foot, knee, etc.), bullets, or other artillery to injure or kill them. To attempt such an attack and fail is called a "miss."
• in computer search engines and web analytics, an item found to match the specified search conditions.
• in confectionary, a brand of cookie by Bahlsen, Hit.
• in genetic programming, when a programme's output is sufficiently close to the target value for a particular test input, or when judging the fitness of the entire test set.
• in geography, Hīt is a town in Iraq.
• in marketing, a success involving (sudden) popularity of and demand for a particular item.
• in music, a hit single is song that makes the top 50 of the charts or hit parade. See also : One-hit wonder and Chart-topper
  • "Hit," a song by Guided by Voices from their 1995 album Alien Lanes
• in recreational drug use, a single dose of a drug.
• in slang, a term for an assassination by an organized crime syndicate (see hitman)
  • can also mean "have sex",
  • and, in some parts of the US, "ugly", e.g. "Damn, that girl/guy is hit.".

As an acronym, HIT or HITS can mean:

• Harbin Institute of Technology, one of the premier research universities in China.
• Health Information Technology, which is associated with Health informatics
• Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.
• Hibernation Inducement Trigger, a chemical with potentially wide applications in organ transplantation and space travel.
• High Intensity Training.
• HITS algorithm, Hypertext Induced Topic Selection, a means to rank web pages in search results.
• HIT Entertainment, a British television production company.
• Human Intelligence Task, see Amazon Mechanical Turk