MIT (disambiguation)

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MIT is an initialism that may refer to:

Institutes of Technology:

• Madras Institute of Technology Chromepet, an engineering college in Chennai, India (one of the four constituent colleges of Anna University, Chennai)
• Maebashi Institute of Technology, a college in Maehashi, Gunma, Japan
• Muroran Institute of Technology, a college in Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan
• Musashi Institute of Technology, a college in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
• Maharashtra Institute of Technology, a college in India
• Manipal Institute of Technology or ManipalTech, an engineering college in Manipal, Karnataka, India
• Manukau Institute of Technology, a polytechnic in Manukau City, New Zealand
• Mapúa Institute of Technology, a tertiary institute in Manila, Philippines
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an institute of higher education located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
• Melbourne Institute of Technology, a Higher education provider in Melbourne, Australia. It is also sometimes erroneously used to refer to RMIT, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (later RMIT University).
• Milwaukee Institute of Technology, 1951-1968, successor to Milwaukee Vocational School and predecessor of the present-day Milwaukee Area Technical College^[1]

Other:

• Market If Touched, "MIT order" - will be executed when the price is touched (futures contract trades or bid at the price)
• Methylisothiazolinone, a preservative
• Manzanillo International Terminal, Panama
• Melodic intonation therapy
• Metal-insulator transition
• Millî İstihbarat Teşkilâtı, National Intelligence Organization of Republic of Turkey
• MIT License, a license for the use of certain types of computer software
• Murder Investigation Team, a British police homicide squad. Also a British television program which is a spin-off series to The Bill.
• Media, Information and Technoculture, a field of study and degree program at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada
• Masters in Information Technology, a field of study and degree program at Sydney University in Australia and the University of Cape Town in South Africa
• Management of Information Technology, a field of study and degree program at the University of Virginia, USA
• Magnetic induction tomography
• Author Kinky Friedman's characters, most notably his fictionalized version of himself and Mike McGovern, use the abbreviation MIT for "Man In Trouble", usually in the form of an alert over the telephone. This becomes an integral plot point in Steppin' On A Rainbow.
• Mit[t] is slang for hands, eg: "take your dirty mitts off me!"
• Men in Trousers, a parody of the Men in Black, appeared on the British children's television show, Live & Kicking
• mit(m/) German for with(w/)

1. ^ The Story of MATC. Milwaukee Area Technical College. Retrieved on 2006-12-31.