Petit
Petit or petite may refer to:
People
- Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791–1820), French physicist
- Antoine Petit (1722–1794), French physician
- Antoni Martí Petit, prime minister of Andorra
- François Pourfour du Petit (1664–1741), French anatomist
- Jean-Martin Petit (1772–1856), French General during the Napoleonic Wars
- Jean-Pierre Petit, French scientist
- Philippe Petit (born 1949), French acrobat
- Pierre Petit (photographer) (1832–1909), French photographer
- Pierre Petit (scholar) (1617–1687), French scholar, medical writer, and poet
- Pierre Petit (engineer), (1598–1677), French military engineer, mathematician, and physicist
- Pierre Petit (cinematographer) (1920–1997), French cinematographer
- Pierre Petit (composer) (1922–2000), French composer
- Pierre Petit (politician) (born 1930), Martinique politician
- Pierre Petit (driver), (born 1957), French racecar driver
- Roland Petit (1924–2011), French choreographer and dancer
Petit (Portuguese footballer)
Armando Gonçalves Teixeira , OIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐɾˈmɐ̃du ɡõˈsaɫvɨʃ tejˈʃejɾɐ]; born 25 September 1976), known as Petit, is a former Portuguese professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, and the current manager of C.D. Tondela.
He received the moniker Petit because of his small frame, and also because he was born in France. He also became known as Pitbull by supporters because of his fierce approach, in addition to a powerful outside shot.
After helping Boavista win its first and only Portuguese championship, he went on to amass more than 200 official appearances for Benfica, winning another three major titles. He also spent several seasons in Germany with 1. FC Köln, but his later years were marred by injury problems.
A Portuguese international during the 2000s, Petit represented the nation in two World Cups – finishing fourth in the 2006 edition – and as many European Championships.
Club career
Early years / Boavista
Petit was born to Portuguese parents in Strasbourg, France, moving to his parents' motherland still as an infant. After four years with modest clubs, he first established himself at the top level with Gil Vicente F.C. where he was a key player, helping the Barcelos team to its best ever first division finish (fifth, narrowly missing out on qualification to the UEFA Cup).
Point (typography)
The point is the smallest whole unit of measure in typography. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other minute items on a printed page. Different points have been used since the 18th century, with measures varying from 0.18 to 0.4 millimeters. Following the advent of desktop publishing in the 1980s and '90s, the importance of digital printing supplanted the letterpress printing systems around the world and established the DTP point as the de facto standard. This measures 1⁄72 of the international inch (about 0.353 mm) and, as with earlier American points, is considered 1⁄12 of a pica.
In metal type, the point size of the font described the height of the metal body on which the typeface's characters were cast. In digital type, letters of a font are designed around an imaginary space called an "em square". When a point size of a font is specified, the font is scaled so that its em square has a side length of that particular length in points. Although the letters of a font usually fit within the font's em square, there is not necessarily any size relationship between the two, so the point size does not necessarily correspond to any measurement of the size of the letters on the printed page.
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