Hit
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Hit may mean to strike
someone or something to cause physical harm.
Hit or HIT may also refer to:
Strike (attack)
A strike is an attack with an inanimate object, such as a weapon, or with a part of the human body intended to cause an effect upon an opponent or to simply cause harm to an opponent. There are many different varieties of strikes...
someone or something to cause physical harm.
Hit or HIT may also refer to:
Business
- Hitachi, Ltd.Hitachi, Ltd.is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the parent of the Hitachi Group as part of the larger DKB Group companies...
(New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol) - Hongkong International Terminals Ltd.Hongkong International Terminals Ltd.Hongkong International Terminals Limited is one of several key container port operators in the Port of Hong Kong owned by Hutchison Port Holdings, which is the largest port operator in Hong Kong and the world....
- Heavy Industries TaxilaHeavy Industries TaxilaHeavy Industries Taxila is the backbone of Pakistan's engineering industry for the Pakistan Armed Forces, being a combination of multiple industries that has grown into a large military complex since 1980. It consists of six major production units and their support facilities, staffed by over 6500...
, a military complex in Pakistan - A brand of biscuits by German food company BahlsenBahlsenBahlsen is a German food company based in Hanover. It was founded in July 1889 by Hermann Bahlsen as the Hannoversche Keksfabrik H. Bahlsen. The family of founder Hermann Bahlsen, led by his grandson Werner Bahlsen, continues to control the company...
Computing and the Internet
- Hit (web request), a single request for a file from a web server
- HITS algorithmHITS algorithmHyperlink-Induced Topic Search is a link analysis algorithm that rates Web pages, developed by Jon Kleinberg. It was a precursor to PageRank...
, a means to rank web pages in search results - Human Intelligence Task, see Amazon Mechanical TurkAmazon Mechanical TurkThe Amazon Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace that enables computer programmers to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are unable to do yet. It is one of the suites of Amazon Web Services...
Education
- Hanze Institute of TechnologyHanze Institute of TechnologyThe Hanze Institute of Technology is part of the Hanze University Groningen in the Netherlands. The HIT is based in Assen where it offers a Bachelor Programme in Advanced Sensor Applications...
, The Netherlands - Harbin Institute of TechnologyHarbin Institute of TechnologyThe Harbin Institute of Technology , or HIT, is colloquially known as Hagongda . It is a research university in the city of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China....
, China - Haryana Institute of Technology (HIT)Haryana Institute of Technology (HIT)Haryana Institute of Technology, Bahadurgarh , commonly known as HIT-Bahadurgarh or HITBgd, is a college of...
, India - Heritage Institute of Technology, KolkataHeritage Institute of Technology, KolkataHeritage Institute of Technology, popularly known as HITK is a renowned private engineering college as well as a top management college, located in Anandapur, Kolkata near the East Kolkata Township, in West Bengal, India.. It is affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata...
, India - Hokkaido Institute of TechnologyHokkaido Institute of Technology, or HIT, is a private university in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan, established in 1967. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1924....
, Japan - Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
- Huazhong Institute of Technology,China
- Hunter Institute of TAFEHunter Institute of TAFETAFE NSW - Hunter Institute has 15 campuses located in the Hunter and Central Coast regions. Its former names include Hunter Institute of TAFE and Hunter Institute of Technology.-External links:*...
, Australia
Entertainment
- HIT EntertainmentHIT EntertainmentHit Entertainment is a British-American entertainment distribution company established in 1989, and originally the international distribution arm of Jim Henson Productions called Henson International Television...
, British television production company formerly called Henson International Television - H.I.T. (drama)H.I.T. (drama)H.I.T , also known as Homicide Investigation Team, is a Korean miniseries drama that aired on MBC from March to May 2007. It replaced the popular 81-episode Korean drama Jumong...
, a South Korean miniseries drama - Hit!Hit!Hit! is a 1973 action film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor. It is about a federal agent trying to destroy a drug zone after his daughter dies from a heroin overdose.-Cast:*Billy Dee Williams - Nick Allen...
, a 1973 crime film - The Hit (film), a 1984 crime film
Medicine and Biology
- Health information technologyHealth information technologyHealth information technology provides the umbrella framework to describe the comprehensive management of health information across computerized systems and its secure exchange between consumers, providers, government and quality entities, and insurers...
- Heparin-induced thrombocytopeniaHeparin-induced thrombocytopeniaHeparin-induced thrombocytopenia is the development of thrombocytopenia , due to the administration of various forms of heparin, an anticoagulant...
, low platelet counts due to the administration of heparin - Hibernation induction triggerHibernation induction triggerHibernation induction trigger is a substance found in the blood of hibernating animals. If blood is taken from a hibernating squirrel in the winter and injected into another squirrel in the spring, the normally active squirrel will be more prone to hibernation when placed in cold dark conditions...
, a substance found in the blood of hibernating animals
Music
- Hit recordHit recordA hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...
- Hit singleHit singleA hit single is a recorded song or instrumental released as a single that has become very popular. Although it is sometimes used to describe any widely-played or big-selling song, the term "hit" is usually reserved for a single that has appeared in an official music chart through repeated radio...
, a song that makes a country's sales charts or hit parade - Hit (album)Hit (album)Hit is a 2003 compilation album of songs by British musician Peter Gabriel. It reached #29 in the UK album charts and #100 in the US. Disc one is labelled Hit and disc two Miss, reflecting the first disc's containing several of Gabriel's biggest-selling singles.The two-disc set is different in the...
, by Peter Gabriel - "Hit", a song by Guided by Voices from the 1995 album Alien LanesAlien LanesAlien Lanes is a 1995 album by lo-fi band Guided by Voices, their eighth full length album.Pitchfork Media included Alien Lanes in their 'Top 100 Albums of the 90s' polls, at No. 27. Magnet named it the best album of 1995....
- "Hit", a single by The Wannadies from the 1997 album Bagsy MeBagsy MeBagsy Me is the fourth album by Swedish band The Wannadies, released in 1997.It includes the hit singles "Someone Somewhere", "Shorty", "Friends", "Hit" and "You and Me Song", the last being originally available on previous album Be A Girl...
- "Hit", a single by The Sugarcubes from their 1992 album Stick Around for JoyStick Around for JoyStick Around For Joy released in February 1992 was the third and final album released by the Icelandic alternative rock band The Sugarcubes. In terms of quality fans usually rate the album somewhere between the band's acclaimed debut, Life's Too Good and the widely panned follow-up Here Today,...
Slang
- A contract killingContract killingContract killing is a form of murder, in which one party hires another party to kill a target individual or group of people. It involves an illegal agreement between two parties in which one party agrees to kill the target in exchange for consideration, monetary, or otherwise. The hiring party may...
- FlirtingFlirtingFlirting is a playful, romantic, or sexual overture by one person to another subtly indicating an interest in a deeper relationship with the other person, and can involve verbal communication as well as body language...
with someone in an affectionate manner, with the intent of establishing a romantic encounter or relationship with that person - A single dose in recreational drug useRecreational drug useRecreational drug use is the use of a drug, usually psychoactive, with the intention of creating or enhancing recreational experience. Such use is controversial, however, often being considered to be also drug abuse, and it is often illegal...
- Having sexual intercourseSexual intercourseSexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which a male's penis enters a female's vagina for the purposes of sexual pleasure or reproduction. The entities may be of opposite sexes, or they may be hermaphroditic, as is the case with snails...
Sport
- Hit (baseball)Hit (baseball)In baseball statistics, a hit , also called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches first base after hitting the ball into fair territory, without the benefit of an error or a fielder's choice....
, when a player reaches base by putting the ball into play without a fielder committing an error - High intensity trainingHigh intensity trainingHigh Intensity Training is a form of strength training popularized in the 1970s by Arthur Jones, the founder of Nautilus. The training focuses on performing quality weightlifting repetitions to the point of momentary muscular failure...
, a form of strength training