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Fit and FIT have several meanings. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

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.
• tailoring, 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.
• the result of curve fitting.
• In the UK the word fit may refer to attractivness. "She's fit, but she knows it."

In linguistics: This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Fitness (often denoted in population genetics models) is a central concept in evolutionary theory. ... This article is about the medical term, epileptic seizure, as distinct from a non-epileptic seizure. ... A tailor attending to a customer in Hong Kong. ... The Honda Fit is a five-door hatchback automobile produced by Honda of Japan, that was first introduced in June 2001. ... Curve fitting is finding a curve which matches a series of data points and possibly other constraints. ...

• A section or part of a poem, as used by Lewis Carroll. This meaning was blended with the idea of seizures in Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark, which was described as "an agony in eight fits." This was also borrowed for the episodes of the radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
• 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: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) – believed to be a self-portrait Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (IPA: ) (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Features such as a symmetrical face, full lips, and low waist-hip ratio, are commonly considered physically attractive because they are thought to indicate physical health and high fertility to a potential mate. ...

• 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
• Federation of International Touch, the governing body of a version of Touch (Rugby) Football.
• 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 university.
• Forever In Terror, a heavy metal band from Streetsboro, OH
• FrameworkForIntegratedTest, 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.
• International Federation of Translators, a global organization of national translation organizations
• Feature integration theory, a theory to explain visual attention

Failure rate is the frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed for example in failures per hour. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Touch (with a capital T), is also known as Touch Football (particularly in Australia) and Touch Rugby in other countries. ... Filton Abbey Wood railway station, (near Bristol, England) was opened on the 11 March 1996, replacing the original Filton station which stands to the north of the current site. ... This compound polyhedron is also a stellation of the regular icosahedron. ... Florida Institute of Technology is an independent technical college located in Melbourne, Florida (Brevard County), United States. ... Forever In Terror is a heavy metal music group from Streetsboro, Ohio. ... Framework for Integrated Test, or Fit, is an open-source tool for automated customer tests. ... The Fraunhofer Society (German: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) is a German research organization with 58 institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science (as opposed to the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, which works primarily on basic science). ... // With world travel market having undergone significant changes over the last few years a new type of tourist has emerged known as the Free Independent Traveler or Tourist (FIT). ... The International Federation of Translators (FIT) is a worldwide organization, composed of the national translation organizations from over 60 countries. ... The feature integration theory, developed by Treisman and Gelade since the early 1980s has been one of the most influential models of human visual attention until recent years. ...

See also

• Retrofit, the addition of new technology or features to older systems

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