Pit
Structure
- 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
Science and technology
- Pit, an excavation on metallic surface caused by pitting corrosion
- Pit, one of many indentations used to store data on a compact disc
- Pit (nuclear weapon), the core of an implosion weapon
- Powered industrial truck, a US legal term
- Point in time, time and date something took place
- Programmable interval timer, a computing device
- Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion
- Pit (botany), a part of plant cell walls which allows the exchange of fluids
- Pyrena or pit, the hard seed-bearing kernel inside drupe fruits such as peaches, olives and cherries
- Probability integral transform, a theorem in probability and statistics
- Boolean prime ideal theorem, which guarantees the existence of certain types of subsets in a given abstract algebra
- Pit bull, a breed of dog
- 2-Propanoyl-3-(4-isopropylphenyl)-tropane, a cocaine analog
- As a file extension,
.pit
stands for Partition Information Table
Arts and entertainment
Games
- Pit (game), a Parker Brothers card game simulating a commodities exchange
- Pit (Kid Icarus), the main character in the video game series Kid Icarus
Music
- 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
Places
United States
- 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)
Sports
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
Other uses
- 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
- Pit Martin (1943–2008), Canadian National Hockey League player
See also
- 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
- All pages with titles containing Pit
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