Pit
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Pit can refer to the following things:
- Any high walled depression in the ground. Examples include a quarry or (in Britain) a coal mine.
- The single seed in the center of a certain fruits is called a pit in American English (stone in Commonwealth English). Fruits containing such seeds include the cherry, peach, plum, olive, avocado and others.
- The data in a compact disc is encoded as a spiral track of nanometer-scale pits.
As a proper noun, pit can refer to:
- Hell is also known as the bottomless pit.
- There is a card game called pit and a different one called pits
- Pit is a fictitious character who stars in the video game franchise Kid Icarus.
- The Pit is the popular name of University Arena, a basketball venue on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
As an abbreviation, pit can refer to:
- The armpit, a part of the body.
- A ball pit, a play structure.
- A mosh pit, a type of dancing.
- Pit bull, a type of dog.
- In motor sport, the pits is the part of a race track where pit stops are conducted.
- The percussion pit or front ensemble (pit for short) is the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps .
- The lowered area in front of a stage is called the orchestra pit (pit for short).
- The PIT Maneuver, short for Pursuit Intervention Technique, used during high-speed pursuits.