Pit

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Pit or PIT may refer to:

• Ball pit, a recreation structure
• Casino pit, the part of a casino which holds gaming tables
• Trapping pit, pits used for hunting
• Pit (motor racing), an area of a racetrack where pit stops are conducted
• Trading pit, a part of a trading floor where open outcry takes place
• Pit cave, a natural cave containing a vertical shaft
• Mine (mining)
  • Open-pit mine, surface extraction of rock or minerals
  • Coal mine or pit

• Pit, an excavation on metallic surface caused by pitting corrosion
• Pit, one of many indentations used to store data on a compact disc
• Pit (botany), a part of plant cell walls which allows the exchange of fluids
• Pit (nuclear weapon), the core of an implosion weapon
• Pit bull, a breed of dog
• PIT tag, Passive Integrated Transponder for RFID system
• Powered industrial truck, a US legal term
• Point in time, time and date something took place
• Probability integral transform, a theorem in probability and statistics
• Programmable interval timer, a computing device
• Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion
• Pyrena or pit, the hard seed-bearing kernel inside drupe fruits such as peaches, olives and cherries
• Boolean prime ideal theorem, which guarantees the existence of certain types of subsets in a given abstract algebra
• Polynomial identity testing, the problem of efficiently determining whether two multivariate polynomials are identical.
• 2-Propanoyl-3-(4-isopropylphenyl)-tropane, a cocaine analog
• As a file extension, .pit stands for Partition Information Table

• Pit (game), a Parker Brothers card game simulating a commodities exchange
• Pit (Kid Icarus), the main character in the video game series Kid Icarus

• Front ensemble, the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps
• Mosh pit, an area for dancing at a concert
• Orchestra pit, the area in a theater, between the stage and audience, in which musicians perform

• Pit Martin (1943–2008), Canadian National Hockey League player
• Pit Seng Low (born 1995), Australian badminton player
• Pit Schubert (1935–2024), German author and mountain climber
• Pit Schlechter (born 1990), Luxembourgish cyclist
• Pit Passarell (1968–2024), Brazilian heavy metal and rock musician
• Alfred Lépine (1901–1955), Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• Pit Leyder (born 1997), Luxembourgish cyclist
• Pit Kroke (1936–2016), German architect and artist
• Pit Gilman (1864–1950), American baseball player
• Pit Corder (1918–1990), English linguist
• Pit Brandenburger (born 1995), Luxembourgish swimmer
• Pit Beirer (born 1972), German motocross racer and team manager

• Pit River, a watershed in California
• Peoples Improv Theater, a venue in New York City
• Pittsburgh (abbreviation), a city in Pennsylvania
• Pittsburgh International Airport (IATA code)

An abbreviation for Pittsburgh sports teams, such as:

• Pittsburgh Steelers, a football team in the NFL
• Pittsburgh Pirates, a baseball team in MLB
• Pittsburgh Penguins, a hockey team in the NHL
• Pittsburgh Condors, a former basketball team in the NBA

• Palitana railway station, Gujarat, India, Indian Railways station code PIT

• Party of Independence and Labour (French: Parti de l'Indépendance et du Travail), a Senegalese political party
• Ivorian Workers' Party (French: Parti ivoirien des travailleurs), an Ivorian political party
• PIT maneuver, a ramming tactic used by law enforcement in vehicle pursuits
• Bie (surname), Chinese surname also romanized as Pit

• Bolshoy Pit, a tributary of the Yenisei, Russia
• Pituitary-specific positive transcription factor 1 (PIT-1), a gene
• The Pit (disambiguation)
• Pitt (disambiguation)
• Pitts (disambiguation)
• Bottomless pit (disambiguation)
• Cockpit
• Hole (disambiguation)
• Fossa (disambiguation), (Latin for pit)
• All pages with titles beginning with Pit
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