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Fit and FIT have several meanings.

Fit can refer to:

  • Physical fitness, how well a person is suited for physical tasks.
  • Fitness (biology), how capable a being is at successfully passing on its genes.
  • seizure, or any other sudden occurrence of a symptom or unusual behavior.
  • tailoring, how well clothing conforms to the wearer's body (as in "a good fit"). "To fit" is also a verb for adjusting clothing to better suit a wearer.
  • Honda Fit (also known as Honda Jazz), a 5-door hatchback car.
  • the result of curve fitting.
  • In England the word 'fit' may refer to an attractive person, e.g. "she's fit, but she knows it."

In linguistics:

  • A section or part of a poem, as used by Lewis Carroll. This meaning was blended with the idea of seizures in Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark, which was described as "an agony in eight fits." This was also borrowed for the episodes of the radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and for the five portions of the Interactive Fiction game Losing Your Grip
  • In the Doric dialect (Scotland), several context-dependent meanings, such as what.
  • Physical attractiveness, in British slang, usually with sexual connotations, generally used to describe an attractive woman. (Whether its origin is an extension of fit as in physically healthy, or fit as in fit/suitable [ie for having sexual intercourse with], is unknown.)

The acronym FIT can stand for:

See also

  • Retrofit, the addition of new technology or features to older systems



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