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Any collection of items or components needed for a specific purpose, especially for use by a workman, or personal effects packed for travelling, such as:
- Body kit, a collection of exterior modifications to a car
- Body hygiene kit, a small bag for storing bathroom and toiletry items for travel
- Drum kit, a collection of drums, cymbals, etc. arranged for convenient playing
- Electronic kit, an assembly kit for any electronic equipment, including a computer
- First aid kit, a collection of supplies and equipment for use in giving first aid
- Field kit, a generic term for a field-specific kit
- Garage kit, an assembly scale model kit
- Graphic kit, a set of decal s for an automobile, motorcycle, model car, or other toy, used to customize the item
- Hush kit, a device for reducing noise from an engine
- Jenter kit, a piece of equipment used by beekeepers to raise large numbers of queen honeybees
- Kit car, an automobile in parts that is assembled
- Kit bag, a large cylindrical bag made of cloth (or other fabric) with a drawstring closure at the top
- Kit house, a type of prefabricated housing
- Knock-down kit, a kit containing the parts needed to assemble a product
- Mess kit, a collection of silverware and cookware used during camping, backpacking, and extended military campaigns
- Plastic kit, a scale model supplied as individual parts of moulded plastic for assembly by hobbyists
- Press kit, a pre-packaged set of promotional materials of a person, company, or organization
- Rape kit, a set of items used by medical personnel for gathering and preserving physical evidence following an allegation of sexual assault which can be used in rape investigation
- Robot kit, a special construction kit for building robots
- Software development kit, a set of tools to create an application
- Stroker kit, an aftermarket assembly that increases the displacement of a reciprocating engine
- Survival kit, a package of basic tools and supplies prepared in advance as an aid to survival in an emergency
- Teaching kit, a teaching resource developed by a museum education department
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- A young ferret
- A young rabbit
- A young mink
- A young fox
- A young beaver
- A short form of kitten, a young cat
- A group of pigeons
- Kit fox, a relatively common North American fox
Music [link]
- Kit (album), 2004 rock album by The Rebel
- Kit violin, a small stringed musical instrument
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- Kit (film), 1970 Bulgarian satirical movie directed by Petar B. Vasilev
- Short for Christopher, as for example Kit Carson. Christopher Marlowe was also called Kit. St. Christopher Island in the Caribbean is called St. Kitts.
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- Kit (given name)
- Barys Kit, a Belarusian scientist
Sport [link]
- Kit (rugby football), the standard equipment and attire worn by players in rugby football
- Kit (association football), the standard equipment and attire worn by players in association football
Technology [link]
- Kit lens, a low-end SLR camera lens
See also [link]
- All pages beginning with "Kit"
- All pages with titles containing "Kit"
- Kit's Coty, a small village in the English county of Kent
- Kits (disambiguation)
- KIT (disambiguation)
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Pál Kitaibel
Pál Kitaibel (3 February 1757– 13 December 1817) was a Hungarian botanist and chemist.
He was born at Mattersburg and studied botany and chemistry at the University of Buda. In 1794 he became Professor and taught these subjects at Pest. As well as studying the flora and hydrography of Hungary, in 1789 he discovered the element tellurium, but later gave the credit to Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740–1825) who had actually discovered it in 1782.
Together with Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein (1759–1823), he wrote Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae ("Descriptions and pictures of the rare plants of Hungary"; M. A. Schmidt, Vienna, three volumes, 1802–1812). In this work he made the first description of Nymphaea lotus f. thermalis.
He died in 1817 at Pest.
The genus Kitaibelia of mallows was named after him by Carl Ludwig von Willdenow.
Species named after him:
Kit violin
The kit violin, dancing master's kit, or kit, is a stringed instrument. It is essentially a very small violin, designed to fit in a pocket — hence its other common name, the pochette (French for small pocket). It was used by dance masters in royal courts and other places of nobility, as well as by street musicians up until around the 18th century. Occasionally, the rebec was used in the same way. Several are called for (as violini piccoli alla francese - small French violins) in Monteverdi's 1607 Orfeo.
History
The word "kit" probably arose from an abbreviation of the word "pocket" to "-cket" and subsequently "kit"; alternatively, it may be a corruption of “cittern” (Gr. κιθάρα).Trichet is said to have described the leather carrying case of the kit as a poche, hence, "The Pocket Violin". Similarly, Mersenne wrote that it was common practice among the kit violin's players (such as traveling minstrels or dance teachers) to carry the violin in a pocket. The term "kit" is believed to first have been used in the first quarter of the 16th century, in England where it was mentioned in Interlude of the Four Elements, c. 1517.
