Pit

Pit or PIT may refer to:

  • Armpit, a body part
  • Ball pit, a recreation structure
  • Casino pit, the part of a casino which holds gaming tables
  • Trapping pit, pits used for hunting
  • Pit, one of many indentations used to store data on a Compact Disc
  • Pit, an area of a racetrack where pit stops are conducted
  • Pit, a part of a trading floor where open outcry takes place
  • PIT-1, a gene
  • Pit bull, a breed of dog
  • Pit cave, a natural cave containing a vertical shaft
  • PIT maneuver, a method used by law enforcement
  • Party of Independence and Labour, a Senegalese political party
  • Open-pit mines, pits in the earth used for extracting minerals
  • Point-in-time, tuple-versioning in a relational database management system
  • WF-31, a cocaine analogue
  • John Pitts (Catholic scholar) (1560−1616), also spelled Pits or Pitseus
  • A coal mine, also known as a pit in parts of England

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Other articles related to "pit":

2011 Indy Car Series Season - Series News
... non-lead lap cars, and the waving around of lapped cars that did not pit ... Pit stall selection for each race would be determined by the qualifying order of the previous round at the track of the same type (e.g ... would be set by final entrants' points from 2010, and the Indy 500, which carries its own pit selection process ...
Pit School
... A pit school was a covert school for African American children from the time when they were prevented from receiving an education due to repression and lack of ... A pit would be dug and covered over ... A pit school is referred to in the book Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen ...
Baddesley Ensor - History
... From then on until 1989 when the pit closed most Baddesley men worked in some capacity at the mine ... A memorial to all the men who worked in the mines, in the form of a pit head winding wheel was erected on the common on the site of the old Maypole pit ...
Messel Pit - Access
... Exhibits from the pit may be seen in the Messel town museum, the Museum of Hessen in Darmstadt (5 km from Messel) and also the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt (some 30 km from ... Casual visitors can park close to the pit and walk around 300 m to a viewing platform overlooking the pit ... Entrance to the pit is only possible as part of a specially organized tour ...
Martinsville Speedway - Layout
... Until 1999, Martinsville was notorious for having two pit roads ... The backstretch pit road was generally avoided because if a team had to pit there during a caution period, any car pitting on the frontstretch had the advantage of pitting first and not having to adhere to pace ... This was rectified when pit road was reconfigured to extend from the entrance of turn 3 to the exit of turn 2 ...

Famous quotes containing the word pit:

    “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”
    —Erich Fromm (1900–1980)

    “For tamed and shabby tigers
    And dancing dogs and bears,
    And wretched, blind pit ponies
    And little hunted hares.”
    —Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871–1962)

    “Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one’s stomach the separation from terra ... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known ... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)