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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.
* [[seizure]], or any other sudden occurrence of a symptom or unusual behavior.
* [[tailor]]ing, 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]].
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''[http://www.phy.duke.edu/~sgranade/lyg.html].
* In the [[Doric dialect (Scotland)]], several context-dependent meanings, such as ''what''.
* [[Physical attractiveness]], in British slang, usually with sexual connotations, generally used to describe an attractive woman. (Whether its origin is an extension of fit as in physically healthy, or fit as in fit/suitable [ie for having sexual intercourse with], is unknown.)
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
* [[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 Tariff|Feed In Tariff]]s, referred to PV energy financial incentives.
* [[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]].
* [[Forever In Terror]], a heavy metal band from Streetsboro, OH
* [[Forward Intelligence Team]], a UK Police unit for dealing with Public Order matters
* [[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 persons) who take packaged tours at a time of their own choice,
* [[Feature integration theory]], a theory to explain visual attention,
* [[Forward Intelligence Team]], units of [[United Kingdom|UK]] police officers assigned to conduct overt surveillance of the public.
* [[Frame Interline Transfer CCD|Frame Interline Transfer]], a type of [[charge-coupled device|CCD]] imager.
==See also==
*[[Retrofit]], the addition of new technology or features to older systems
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