An ait (or eyot) is a small island found in the middle of a river or lake. It is especially used to refer to islands found on the River Thames in England.
Aits are typically formed by the deposition of sediment in the water, which accumulates over a period of time. An ait is characteristically long and narrow, and may become a permanent island. However, aits may also be eroded: the resulting sediment is deposited further downstream and could result in another ait. A channel with numerous aits is called a braided channel.
The words "ait" and "eyot" are not common in modern English, although a few famous writers have used it, including J. R. R. Tolkien in his Lord of the Rings books, and Charles Dickens in Bleak House. More recently, it was used by Terry Pratchett in the first of the Discworld books, The Colour of Magic.
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- Ait, a small island found in the middle of a river or lake
Schools
In India
- Adichunchanagiri Institute of Technology, a college in Karnataka, India
- Adithya Institute of Technology, a college in Coimbatore, India
- Ansal Institute of Technology, a college in Gurgaon, India
- Army Institute of Technology, Pune, a college in Pune, India
In the United States
- Academy for Information Technology, a high school in Scotch Plains, New Jersey
- Academy of Information Technology and Engineering, a high school in Stamford, Connecticut
Elsewhere
- Asian Institute of Technology, a graduate school in Bangkok, Thailand
- Athlone Institute of Technology, a college in Athlone, Ireland
- Auckland University of Technology, formerly Auckland Institute of Technology, a university in Auckland, New Zealand
Companies
- Africa Independent Television, Nigerian satellite television station
- Applied Industrial Technologies, US distributor of bearings, adhesives and sealants
- Ameritech, formerly named American Information Technologies, US telecommunications company
Organizations
- Agency for Instructional Technology, US non-profit distributor of educational television programs
- Alliance Internationale de Tourisme, an international federation of motoring organisations
- Arts Initiative Tokyo, a non-profit collective of curators and art administrators
- Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores, Spanish name of the International Workers Association, an international federation of labour unions, based in Serbia
- Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, a UK tribunal with jurisdiction over immigration and asylum issues
- American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto embassy of the US in Taiwan
Other uses
- Advanced Individual Training, a level of US Army basic training
- Advanced Intelligent Tape, a high-speed, high-capacity magnetic tape data storage format by Sony
- Algorithmic information theory, a subfield of information theory and computer science
- Canadian Agreement on Internal Trade, a trade agreement between Canadian governments
- An Inconvenient Truth, American documentary film on global warming
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