Pit

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Contents 1 Technology 2 Places 3 Games 4 Musical performance 5 Mathematics 6 Other meanings 7 See also

Pit or PIT may refer to:

[edit] Technology

• Pressure Indicator Transmitter, abbreviation used in piping and instrumentation diagrams
• Programmable Interval Timer, a computing device
• Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion
• The core of a nuclear weapon

[edit] Places

• Pit River, a watershed in California
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• The Pittsburgh Penguins, Steelers, or Pirates

• Pittsburgh International Airport, PIT in IATA code
• The People's Improv Theater, a venue in New York City
• Joseph Scelsi Intermodal Transportation Center, a rail and bus terminal in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
• Doły Jasielsko Sanockie, the lowest mountain ranges of the Carpathian Mountains in Poland

[edit] Games

• Pit (game), a Parker Brothers card game simulating a commodities exchange
• Pits (game), a card game similar to whist and rummy
• Pit (Nintendo), a character in the Kid Icarus video game series
• The Pitt (Fallout 3) A Downloadable content package for Bethesda's Fallout 3
• PIT Partners In Time (mario and luigi partners in time for the nintendo ds and nintendo ds lite)

[edit] Musical performance

• Mosh pit, an area for dancing at a concert
• Orchestra pit
• Front ensemble, the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps

[edit] Mathematics

• Prime ideal theorem
• Polynomial identity testing

[edit] Other meanings

• A pit cave
• Armpit, a body part
• Ball pit, a recreation structure
• Casino pit, part of a casino where gaming tables are located
• Trapping pit, pits used for hunting
• PIT-1, a gene
• Pit bull, a breed of dog
• PIT maneuver, a method used by law enforcement
• Party of Independence and Labour, a Senegalese political party
• Open-pit mines, pits in the earth used for extracting minerals
• WF-31, a cocaine analogue
• A seed found in the center of drupe fruits, such as peaches
• Indentations used to store data on a compact disc
• Part of a racetrack where pit stops are conducted
• Part of a trading floor where open outcry takes place

[edit] See also

• The Pit
• Pitt
• Cockpit

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