Nit
Encyclopedia
- The egg of a louseLouseLice is the common name for over 3,000 species of wingless insects of the order Phthiraptera; three of which are classified as human disease agents...
- Head lice (often known as "nits" in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand)
- A trivial detail; the object of nitpickingNitpickingNitpicking is the act of removing nits from the host's hair. As the nits are cemented to individual hairs, they cannot be removed with most lice combs and, before modern chemical methods were invented, the only options were to shave all the host's hair or to pick them free one by one.This is a...
- Nit (unit)Nit (unit)The candela per square metre is the derived SI unit of luminance. The unit is based on the candela, the SI unit of luminous intensity, and the square metre, the SI unit of area...
, a unit of luminance equivalent to one candela per square metre (1 cd/m²) - Nits (band), a Dutch musical group
- National Invitation TournamentNational Invitation TournamentThe National Invitation Tournament is a men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. There are two NIT events each season. The first, played in November and known as the Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off , was founded in 1985...
, a men's college basketball tournament in the United States - Nagpur Improvement TrustNagpur Improvement TrustNagpur Improvement Trust is a local civic government body with the task of developing new areas within city limits of Nagpur, India and maintaining existing city infrastructure. Trust works along with Nagpur Municipal Corporation which is an elected body of city representatives...
, a local civil government body in Nagpur, India - Negative income taxNegative income taxIn economics, a negative income tax is a progressive income tax system where people earning below a certain amount receive supplemental pay from the government instead of paying taxes to the government. Such a system has been discussed by economists but never fully implemented...
, a proposed tax reform - NeithNeithIn Egyptian mythology, Neith was an early goddess in the Egyptian pantheon. She was the patron deity of Sais, where her cult was centered in the Western Nile Delta of Egypt and attested as early as the First Dynasty...
, an Egyptian goddess - Nat (information)Nat (information)A nat is a logarithmic unit of information or entropy, based on natural logarithms and powers of e, rather than the powers of 2 and base 2 logarithms which define the bit. The nat is the natural unit for information entropy...
, a logarithmic unit of information or entropy - Norfolk International Terminals, a port operated by the Virginia Port AuthorityVirginia Port AuthorityThe Virginia Port Authority is an autonomous agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia that owns the Port of Virginia...
located in Norfolk, VirginiaNorfolk, VirginiaNorfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. With a population of 242,803 as of the 2010 Census, it is Virginia's second-largest city behind neighboring Virginia Beach....
Schools
- National Institutes of TechnologyNational Institutes of TechnologyThe National Institutes of Technology , are a group of higher education engineering institutes in India. Comprising thirty autonomous institutes, they are located in one each major state/territory of India. On their inception decades ago, all NITs were referred as Regional Engineering Colleges ...
, 30 engineering schools of national importance located in India - Naval Institute of TechnologyNaval Institute of TechnologyNaval State University is a state university in the municipality of Naval in Biliran, Philippines. It is mandated to provide advanced education, higher technological, professional instruction and training in the fields of arts and sciences, education, agriculture, fishery, forestry, maritime...
, a school in Biliran, Philippines - Northern Institute of TechnologyNorthern Institute of TechnologyThe Northern Institute of Technology Management is an international business school, located in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded in 1998 as a public-private partnership of the Hamburg University of Technology and sponsoring companies....
, a school in Germany - Nekomi Institute of Technology, a fictional university in the anime/manga Oh My Goddess!
- Nagoya Institute of TechnologyNagoya Institute of TechnologyThe , or less commonly Nitech, is a public highest-level educational institution of science and technology located in Nagoya, Japan.Nagoya Institute of Technology was founded on 1905 as Nagoya Higher Technical School, renamed Nagoya College of Technology in 1944 then merged under the new...
, a college in Nagoya, Japan - Nippon Institute of TechnologyNippon Institute of Technologyis a private university in Miyashiro, Saitama, Japan, established in 1967. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1907-External links:*...
, a college in Saitama, Japan - Nishinippon Institute of TechnologyNishinippon Institute of Technologyis a private university in the city of Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was established in 1967.-External links:*...
, a college in Fukuoka, Japan