Ait

An ait (pronounced /eɪt/, like "eight") or eyot (pronounced /aɪət/, /aɪt/, or /eɪt/) is a small island. It is especially used to refer to river islands found on the River Thames and its tributaries in England.

Aits are typically formed by the deposition of sediment in the water, which accumulates over a period of time. An ait is characteristically long and narrow, and may become a permanent island. However, aits may also be eroded: the resulting sediment is deposited further downstream and could result in another ait. A channel with numerous aits is called a braided channel.

References in literature

Although not common in 21st-century English, "ait" or "eyot" appears in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Charles Dickens' Bleak House, and Thackeray's Vanity Fair.

Joyce Cary used "eyot" in The Horse's Mouth – "Sun was in the bank. Streak of salmon below. Salmon trout above soaking into wash blue. River whirling along so fast that its skin was pulled into wrinkles like silk dragged over the floor. Shot silk. Fresh breeze off the eyot. Sharp as spring frost. Ruffling under the silk-like muscles in a nervous horse. Ruffling under my grief like ice and hot daggers."

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William Aiton

William Aiton (1731 – 2 February 1793) was a Scottish botanist.

Aiton was born near Hamilton. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden. In 1759 he was appointed director of the newly established botanical garden at Kew, where he remained until his death. He effected many improvements at the gardens, and in 1789 he published Hortus Kewensis, a catalogue of the plants cultivated there. He is buried at nearby St. Anne's Church, Kew.

A second and enlarged edition of the Hortus was brought out in 1810–1813 by his eldest son.

Selected publications

  • Aiton, W. (1789). Hortus Kewensis. London: George Nicol. 

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    AIT

    AIT may refer to:

    Geography

  • Ait, a small island found in the middle of a river or lake
  • "Ait" or "Äit" is the Saterland Frisian name for the town of Friesoythe (which is the German name).

    • Government

  • American Institute in Taiwan, the U.S. pseudo-embassy
  • Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, a UK tribunal with jurisdiction over immigration and asylum issues

    • Schools and education

    In India

  • Acharya Institute of Technology, in Bangalore
  • Adichunchanagiri Institute of Technology, in Karnataka
  • Adithya Institute of Technology, in Coimbatore
  • Ahmedabad Institute of Technology, in Ahmedabad
  • Ambedkar Institute of Technology, in Delhi
  • Ansal Institute of Technology, in Gurgaon
  • Army Institute of Technology, Pune, in Pune

    • In the United States

  • Advanced Individual Training, a level of US Army basic training
  • Aeromedical Isolation Team, a former US Army aeromobile biocontainment team
  • Academy for Information Technology, a high school in Scotch Plains, New Jersey
  • Academy of Information Technology and Engineering, a high school in Stamford, Connecticut
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