Pit
Pit stands for:
- Pit (given name) , a male given name
- a data-carrying recess on a CD, see Compact Disc # Structure of a CD
- an arena for dog fights, see Kampfhund # Kriegs- und Kampfhunde
- an arena for cockfighting
- Pit , old name for the (unseated) parquet seats in an English theater.
- Pit River , tributary of the Sacramento River in California
- microscopic damage to the stone of buildings, see pitting (structural damage)
- the cooking chamber of a barbecue smoker
- Vehicle maintenance box on racetracks, see pit lane
Pit is the family name of the following people:
- Adriaan Pit (1860–1944), Dutch art historian, museum director and author
pit stands for:
- Pitta Pitta (ISO-639-3 code), extinct Australian language around Boulia , Queensland
PIT stands for:
- Passive Integrated Transponder , a small microchip for subcutaneous marking of animals
- PIT - Peter-Illmann-Treff , a music broadcast by ZDF from the 1980s
- Pittsburgh International Airport (IATA code)
- Pneumatic Impact Treatment , a higher frequency hammering process
- Production in time , a method of production planning and control
- Programmable Interval Timer , a timer chip from IBM
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Wiktionary: pit - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
