Hit

Hit may mean to strike someone or something to cause physical harm.

Hit or HIT may also refer to:

In business

• Hitachi, Ltd. (New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol)
• Hongkong International Terminals Ltd.
• Heavy Industries Taxila, a military complex in Pakistan
• Hit Fm (disambiguation), various radio stations
• A brand of biscuits by German food company Bahlsen
• Hit (drink), a Venezuelan carbonated soft drink

Computing and the internet

• Hit (internet), a single request for a file from a web server
• HITS algorithm, a means to rank web pages in search results
• Human Intelligence Task, see Amazon Mechanical Turk
• Health Information Technology

Education

• Hanze Institute of Technology, The Netherlands
• Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India
• Hokkaido Institute of Technology, Japan
• Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
• Hunter Institute of TAFE, Australia

Science and medicine

• Health information technology
• Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, low platelet counts due to the administration of heparin
• Hibernation induction trigger, a substance found in the blood of hibernating animals
• Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence, in fluid dynamics

Places

• Hīt, Iraq, a town
  • Hīt District, a district centered on the Iraqi town
• Hit, Syria

Language

• Hit (pronoun) in Old English, "it" in Modern English
• ISO 639 code for the Hittite language

Entertainment

• HIT Entertainment, British television production company formerly called Henson International Television
• H.I.T. (TV series), a South Korean drama miniseries
• Hit!, a 1973 crime film
• The Hit (film), a 1984 crime film

Music

• Hit record
• Hit single, a song that makes a country's sales charts or hit parade
• Hit Records, a defunct record company based in Nashville, Tennessee
• Hit Records (Croatia), a record label based in Zagreb
• Hit (album), by Peter Gabriel
• "Hit", a song by Guided by Voices from the 1995 album Alien Lanes
• "Hit", a single by The Wannadies from the 1997 album Bagsy Me
• "Hit", a single by The Sugarcubes from their 1992 album Stick Around for Joy

Slang

• A contract killing
• A single dose in recreational drug use
• Having sexual intercourse

Sport

• Hit (baseball), when a player reaches base by putting the ball into play without a fielder committing an error
• High intensity training, a form of strength training

Other

• Homicide International Trust a fictional organization in MacGyver

See also

• HITS (disambiguation)
• Hits (disambiguation)
• Hit FM (disambiguation)