Hit

Hit is a verb meaning to strike someone or something.

Hit or HIT may also refer to:

Education

• Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• Hanze Institute of Technology, The Netherlands
• Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India
• Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
• Harare Institute of Technology, Zimbabwe

In business

• Hitachi, Ltd., NYSE ticker symbol
• Hongkong International Terminals Ltd.
• Heavy Industries Taxila, a military complex in Pakistan
• Hit Fm (disambiguation), various radio stations
• Hit (drink), a Venezuelan carbonated soft drink

Computing and the internet

• Hit (internet), a single request for a file from a web server
• Human Intelligence Task by Amazon Mechanical Turk

Science and medicine

• Health information technology
• Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
• Herd immunity threshold of vaccination, to induce herd immunity against a communicable disease
• Hibernation induction trigger, blood substance irreproducibly believed to induce animal hibernation

Places

• Hit, Qasr-e Qand, a village in Iran
• Hīt, Iraq, a town
  • Hīt District, a district centered on the Iraqi town
• Hit, Syria

Language

• Hit (pronoun), Old English, third-person singular neuter accusative, "it" in modern English
• ISO 639 code for the Hittite language

Entertainment

• HIT Entertainment, UK TV production company, formerly Henson International Television
• H.I.T (TV series), a South Korean drama miniseries
• Hit!, a 1973 crime film

Music

• Hit record or hit single, audio recording selling many copies
• Hit Records, a defunct record company based in Nashville, Tennessee, US
• Hit Records (Croatia), a record label based in Zagreb
• Hit (album), by Peter Gabriel
• "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

Slang

• A contract killing
• A single dose in recreational drug use
• Having sexual intercourse

Sport

• Hit (baseball) or base hit, a baseball player reaching base after hitting the ball, without benefit of an opponent's error
• High intensity training, a form of strength training

Other

• Homicide International Trust a fictional organization in MacGyver

See also

• HITS (disambiguation)
• Hits (disambiguation)
• The Hit (disambiguation)