Pit

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Pit may refer to:

• Pit, any high walled depression in the ground, such as a quarry or (in Britain) an opencast coal mine
• Pit or Colliery, a deep-shaft underground coal mine
• Burial alive as a fictional method of execution based on The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
• Pit, the single seed in the center of a cherry, peach, plum, olive, avocado or other fruit
• Pits, the lowest mountain ranges of the polish Carpathians.
• Pit, the 750nm depressions etched on a compact disc for storing data in binary digit 1
• Pit, the part of a racing track where pit stops are conducted
• Pit (open outcry), an area in a futures market where trading takes place
• Pit, an area in a casino surrounded by gaming tables. Managed by a Pit boss
• pit, the core of a nuclear weapon
• Trapping pit, designed to catch animals

As a proper noun, Pit can refer to:

• The PIT maneuver, used by police to force a car off the road
• the "Bottomless Pit", Hell
• Pit (game), a Parker Brothers card game based on commodities exchanges
• Pits (game), a cross between whist and rummy
• Pit (Nintendo), star of the Nintendo Entertainment System video game Kid Icarus
• University Arena, a basketball venue on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque
• McArthur Court, a basketball venue on the campus of the University of Oregon
• Programmable Interval Timer, a computer device

Pit can be short for:

• Circle pit
• Pittsburgh International Airport whose code is PIT
• Armpit, a part of the body
• Ball pit, a play structure
• Mosh pit, the location for a type of dancing
• Pit bull, a type of dog
• Front ensemble/Front line, the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps
• Orchestra pit
• PIT, acronym/abbreviation for Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time
• PIT, acronym/abbreviation for The People's Improv Theater

PIT can refer to:

• Passive Integrated Transponder a small elecrtonic device for identifying animals (subcutaneous)
• Pac-In-Time, a 1995 video game featuring Pac-Man
• Parti de l'Indépendance et du Travail, a communist party in Senegal
• Personal Income Tax
• Phase inversion temperature
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Common abbreviation used for Pittsburgh Sports
  • Pittsburgh International Airport
  • Joseph Scelsi Intermodal Transportation Center, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States; Amtrak station code PIT
• Pit River, in California, United States
• Powered Industrial Truck, see forklift truck
• Pressure Indicator Transmitter, an abbreviation used in piping and instrumentation diagrams
• Programmable Interval Timer, a timer available in the entire PC architecture
• Pulsed inductive thruster
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• PIT-1, a gene
• PIT or WF-31, a cocaine analogue

See also: The Pit and Cockpit