Hit

Hit may mean a strike (attack), the act of hitting someone or something to cause physical harm.

Hit or HIT may also refer to:

Sport

• Hit (baseball), when the bat contacts the ball
• High intensity training, a form of strength training

Music

• Hit (album), by Peter Gabriel
• Hits (disambiguation), for albums with that title
• Hit record
• Hit single, a song that makes the top 40 of the sales charts or hit parade
• "Hit", a song by Guided by Voices from the 1995 album Alien Lanes
• "Hit", a single by The Wannadies from the 1997 album Bagsy Me
• "Hit", a single by The Sugarcubes from their 1992 album Stick Around for Joy
• A cover of the song, by Diana Vickers from her album, Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree

Computing and the Internet

• The result(s) of a search of a computer system or, for example, the entire Internet using a search engine
• An approximately correct answer in a test set
• Hit (web request), a request for a single file from the web server
• Health Information Technology, associated with Health informatics
• Human Intelligence Task, see Amazon Mechanical Turk
• Hypertext Induced Topic Selection or HITS algorithm, a means to rank web pages in search results

Science/Engineering

• Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence, Fluid Dynamics

Language

• Hit (pronoun) in Old English — it in Modern English

Education

• Hunter Institute of TAFE, Australia
• Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• Huazhong Institute of Technology,China
• Haryana Institute of Technology (HIT), India
• Hokkaido Institute of Technology, Japan
• Hanze Institute of Technology, The Netherlands
• Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

Medicine and Biology

• Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, low platelet counts due to the administration of heparin
• Hibernation induction trigger, a substance found in the blood of hibernating animals
• Health Information Technology

Business

• Heavy Industries Taxila, a military complex in Pakistan
• A brand of biscuits by German food company Bahlsen
• Hitachi, Ltd.'s ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange
• Hongkong International Terminals Ltd.
• Hit, a chain of supermarkets in Bulgaria and Germany
• Hit, brand name for Fanta in Venezuela

Entertainment

• HIT Entertainment, British television production company formerly called Henson International Television.
• Asking the dealer for another card in blackjack, as in the expression "hit me"
• H.I.T., a South Korean miniseries drama

Slang

• A contract killing
• A single dose in recreational drug use
• Having sexual intercourse
• An ugly person
• To flirt or to talk to someone in an affectionate manner, with the intent of establishing a romantic or sexual encounter or relationship with that person
• Hoe In Training, ie. DP's mom, JRoh's mom, Jason Ku

Places

• Hīt, Iraq, a town

See also

• HITS