Fit 1012374 225543486 2008-07-14T06:22:02Z T 335639 rvv {{wiktionary|fit}} '''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 {{disambig}} [[de:Fit]] [[fr:FIT]] [[ko:FIT]] [[it:FIT]] [[nl:FIT]] [[ja:FIT]]