Hit

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Hit and the acronym HIT may refer to:

Science/Engineering

• Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence, Fluid Dynamics

Sport

• Hit (baseball)
• High intensity training, a form of strength training

Music

• Hit (album), by Peter Gabriel
• Hits (disambiguation), for albums with that title
• Hit Records, a record label
• Hit single, a song that makes the top 40 of the sales charts or hit parade
• "Hit", a song by Guided by Voices from the 1995 album Alien Lanes
• "Hit", a single by The Wannadies from the 1997 album Bagsy Me

Language

• Hit (pronoun) in Old English — it in Modern English

Education

• Hunter Institute of TAFE, Australia
• Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• Huazhong Institute of Technology,China

Medicine and Biology

• Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, low platelet counts due to the administration of heparin
• Hibernation induction trigger, a substance found in the blood of hibernating animals

Business

• Heavy Industries Taxila, a military complex in Pakistan
• A brand of cookies by German food company Bahlsen
• Hitachi's ticker symbol on the NYSE: HIT
• Hongkong International Terminals Ltd.

Computing and Internet

• Hit (web request), a request for a single file from the web server
• Health Information Technology, associated with Health informatics
• Human Intelligence Task, see Amazon Mechanical Turk
• Hypertext Induced Topic Selection or HITS algorithm, a means to rank web pages in search results
• An item found by a search engine to match specified search conditions
• An approximately correct answer in a test set

Entertainment

• HIT Entertainment, British television production company formerly called Henson International Television.
• Asking the dealer for another card in blackjack, as in the expression "hit me"
• H.I.T., a South Korean miniseries drama

Slang

• A contract killing
• A single dose in recreational drug use
• Having sexual intercourse
• An ugly person

Places

• Hīt, Iraq, a town

See also

• HITS