Pit

Pit or PIT may refer to:

• Armpit, a body part
• Ball pit, a recreation structure
• Casino pit, that part of a casino which holds gaming tables
• Trapping pit, pits used for hunting
• Pit, one of many indentations used to store data on a Compact Disc
• Pit, an area of a racetrack where pit stops are conducted
• Pit, a part of a trading floor where open outcry takes place
• PIT-1, a gene
• Pit bull, a breed of dog
• Pit cave, a natural cave containing a vertical shaft
• PIT maneuver, a method used by law enforcement
• Party of Independence and Labour, a Senegalese political party
• Open-pit mines, pits in the earth used for extracting minerals
• Point-in-time, tuple-versioning in a relational database management system
• WF-31, a cocaine analogue
• John Pitts (Catholic scholar) (1560−1616), also spelled Pits or Pitseus
• A coal mine, also known as a pit in parts of England

Science and technology

• Pit, an excavation in metal caused by pitting corrosion
• Pit (nuclear weapon), the core of an implosion weapon
• Pressure Indicator Transmitter, abbreviation used in piping and instrumentation diagrams
• Programmable interval timer, a computing device
• Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion
• Passive Integrated Transponder, an RFID tag without a power source of its own
• Pit, endocarp of a fruit

Places and sports teams

• Doły Jasielsko-Sanockie "Pits", the lowest mountain ranges of the Carpathian Mountains in Poland
• Joseph Scelsi Intermodal Transportation Center, a rail and bus terminal in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
• The People's Improv Theater, a venue in New York City
• Pit River, a watershed in California
• PIT, abbreviation for Pittsburgh, often used in conjunction with the city's sports teams
• Pittsburgh International Airport, PIT in IATA code

Games

• Pit (game), a Parker Brothers card game simulating a commodities exchange
• Pit (Nintendo), a character in the Kid Icarus video game series
• Pits (card game), a card game similar to whist and rummy
• Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time

Musical performance

• A front ensemble, the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps
• Mosh pit, an area for dancing at a concert
• Orchestra pit, the area in a theater in which musicians perform

Mathematics

• Boolean prime ideal theorem, which guarantees the existence of certain types of subsets in a given abstract algebra
• Polynomial identity testing

See also

• All pages beginning with "Pit"
• All pages with titles containing "Pit"
• The Pit (disambiguation)
• Pitt (disambiguation)
• Pitts (disambiguation)
• Bottomless pit (disambiguation)
• Cockpit
• Hole (disambiguation)