Hit
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Hit means to strike, cause to come into contact with forcefully, or deal a blow to an object. The word hit or hits can also mean:
- in American football, where a defensive or special teams player successfully makes a particularly aggressive tackle by running hard into the opposing player.
- in archery and in target shooting, striking the exact desired spot, commonly the center of a target.
- in baseball, the act of safely reaching first base, or any other base after batting the ball into fair territory; see hit (baseball).
- in blackjack, when a player asks the dealer for another card, it is called a hit.
- in computer and video games, martial arts, or military slang, successfully striking an opponent with a weapon (including one's own fist, elbow, foot, knee, etc.), bullets, or other artillery to injure or kill them. To attempt such an attack and fail is called a "miss."
- in computer searches (e.g. using a search engine), an item found to match the specified search conditions.
- in genetic programming and other computer science optimisation techniques, a program scores a hit when its output is sufficiently close or equal to the target value for a particular test input; in some problems a program's fitness may be given by the number of hits it collects when run on the entire test set.
- in marketing, a success involving (sudden) popularity of and demand for a particular item, such as a song that reaches the hit parade.
- in music, any song that makes the top 50 of the charts or hit parade. Hit can also mean a sudden music outburst used as an element of surprise or a high point in a musical story. See also : One-hit wonder and Chart-topper
- in political geography, Hīt is a town in Iraq.
- in recreational drug use, a single dose of a drug.
- in slang, a term for an assassination by an organized crime syndicate; see hitman, can also mean "have sex".
- in web analytics, a hit is any request for a file from a web server.
- "Hit," a song by Guided by Voices from their 1995 album Alien Lanes
- in slang, in certain parts of the US, a term to identify a person as ugly. For example: "Damn, that girl/guy is hit."
- HIT Entertainment a British television production company.
- Hit, a brand of cookie by Bahlsen.
As an acronym, HIT or HITS can mean:
- Harbin Institute of Technology, one of the premier research universities in China.
- Health Information Technology, which is associated with Health informatics
- Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.
- Hibernation Inducement Trigger, a chemical with potentially wide applications in organ transplantation and space travel.
- High Intensity Training.
- HITS algorithm, Hypertext Induced Topic Selection, a means to rank web pages in search results.
- Human Intelligence Task, see Amazon Mechanical Turk
