Pit

Pit or PIT may refer to:

Structure

Pit, an excavation on metallic surface caused by pitting corrosion
Pit, one of many indentations used to store data on a compact disc
Pit (botany), a part of plant cell walls which allows the exchange of fluids
Pit (nuclear weapon), the core of an implosion weapon
Pit bull, a breed of dog
PIT tag, Passive Integrated Transponder for RFID system
Powered industrial truck, a US legal term
Point in time, time and date something took place
Probability integral transform, a theorem in probability and statistics
Programmable interval timer, a computing device
Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion
Pyrena or pit, the hard seed-bearing kernel inside drupe fruits such as peaches, olives and cherries
Boolean prime ideal theorem, which guarantees the existence of certain types of subsets in a given abstract algebra
Polynomial identity testing, the problem of efficiently determining whether two multivariate polynomials are identical.
2-Propanoyl-3-(4-isopropylphenyl)-tropane, a cocaine analog
As a file extension, .pit stands for Partition Information Table

Front ensemble, the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps
Mosh pit, an area for dancing at a concert
Orchestra pit, the area in a theater, between the stage and audience, in which musicians perform

== People ==

An abbreviation for Pittsburgh sports teams, such as:

Party of Independence and Labour ({{langx|fr|Parti de l'Indépendance et du Travail|links=no}}), a Senegalese political party
Ivorian Workers' Party ({{langx|fr|Parti ivoirien des travailleurs|links=no}}), an Ivorian political party
PIT maneuver, a ramming tactic used by law enforcement in vehicle pursuits
Bie (surname), Chinese surname also romanized as Pit