Fit

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Fit and FIT have several meanings.

Fit can refer to:

• Physical fitness, how well a person is suited for physical tasks.
• Fitness (biology), how capable a being is at successfully passing on its genes.
• An element of a tantrum
• seizure, or any other sudden occurrence of a symptom or unusual behavior.
• tailoring, how well clothing conforms to the wearer's body (as in "a good fit"). "To fit" is also a verb for adjusting clothing to better suit a wearer.
• Honda Fit (also known as Honda Jazz), a 5-door hatchback car.
• Engineering fit, a classification system for the mating of two mechanical components.
• the result of curve fitting.
• the description of the relation between components of a machine i.e how they are "fitted" together. A measure of the relative accuracy of the relationship between any adjacent components, largely dependent on what their purpose is.
• Hospitality FIT, Free Individual Traveler.
• A slang term for a hypodermic needle or syringe with reference to drugs.

In linguistics:

• Also spelt fytte, a section or part of a poem, a canto. This meaning was blended to humorous effect with the idea of seizures in Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark, which he described as "an agony in eight fits." Whence its use for the episodes of the radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and for the five portions of the Interactive Fiction game Losing Your Grip[1].
• In the Doric dialect (Scotland), several context-dependent meanings, such as what.
• Physical attractiveness, in British or Irish slang, usually with sexual connotations, generally used to describe an attractive man or woman. (It usually meant an extension of fit as in physically healthy, but to some it may mean fit as in fit/suitable [ie for having sexual intercourse with])

The acronym FIT can stand for:

• Failures In Time, a unit rate of failure, used in reliability engineering.
• Fashion Institute of Technology, an American college, part of the State University of New York
• Fast Issue Track, issue resolutions software
• Feature integration theory, a theory to explain visual attention
• Federal Income Tax, Federal Withholding from payroll, not including Social Security or Medicare
• Federated Integration Test is an initiative by IBM Software Group to do for IBM products an integration test, to avoid situations where you install 4 IBM products on one system and half of them stop working
• Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs or International Federation of Translators, a global umbrella organization of national translators' and interpreters' associations
• Federation of International Touch, the governing body of a version of Touch (Rugby) Football
• Feed In Tariffs, referred to PV energy financial incentives
• Fields In Trust, the operating name of the National Playing Fields Association in the UK
• Filton Abbey Wood railway station has National Rail code FIT
• Finite Integration Technique, a numerical method for simulating electromagnetical problems
• Five Intersecting Tetrahedra, a compound solid shape
• Florida Institute of Technology, an American engineering and technological university located in Melbourne, Florida
• Flow Indicator Transmitter, abbreviation used in piping and instrumentation diagrams
• Forever In Terror, a heavy metal band from Streetsboro, OH
• Forward Intelligence Team, a UK Police unit for dealing with Public Order matters
• Frame Interline Transfer, a type of CCD imager
• Framework for Integrated Test, an open-source software tool for automated customer tests
• Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, a German institute operated by the Fraunhofer Society
• Free Independent Traveler, a small number of tourists (usually fewer than 5 people) who take packaged tours at a time of their own choice
• Frequency, Intensity and Time, an acronym that guides involvement in physical activity.

[edit] See also

• Retrofit, the addition of new technology or features to older systems

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