pit bull terrier

Dog breed developed in 19th-century Britain for fighting other dogs in pits. It was created by crossing the bulldog (which at the time was longer-legged and more agile) with a terrier, possibly the fox terrier. Once known by such names as bull-and-terrier and half-and-half, the pit bull is a stocky, muscular, unusually strong dog with powerful jaws, standing 17–19 in. (43–48 cm) tall and weighing 30–50 lb (14–23 kg). Its stiff, short coat may be any colour, solid or variegated. Seealso bull terrier.

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Technology

• Programmable Interval Timer, a computing device
• Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion
• The core of a nuclear weapon

Places

• Pit River, a watershed in California
• Pittsburgh International Airport, PIT in IATA code
• The People's Improv Theater, a venue in New York City
• Joseph Scelsi Intermodal Transportation Center, a rail and bus terminal in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
• Doły Jasielsko Sanockie, the lowest mountain ranges of the Carpathian Mountains in Poland

Games

• Pit (game), a Parker Brothers card game simulating a commodities exchange
• Pits (game), a card game similar to whist and rummy
• Pit (Nintendo), a character in the Kid Icarus video game series

Musical performance

• Mosh pit, an area for dancing at a concert
• Orchestra pit
• Front ensemble, the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps

Other meanings

• Armpit, a body part
• Ball pit, a recreation structure
• Casino pit, part of a casino where gaming tables are located
• Trapping pit, pits used for hunting
• PIT-1, a gene
• Pit bull, a breed of dog
• PIT manoeuvre, 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
• WF-31, a cocaine analogue
• A seed found in the center of drupe fruits, such as peaches
• Indentations used to store data on a compact disc
• Part of a racetrack where pit stops are conducted
• Part of a trading floor where open outcry takes place

See also

• The Pit
• Cockpit