• Armpit, a body part
• Ball pit
  Ball pit
  A ball pit is a pit, usually rectangular and padded, filled with small colorful hollow plastic balls...
  
  , a recreation structure
• Casino pit
  Casino pit
  A casino pit is an area of a casino which typically contains tables for Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, and other games.Typically, a pit is organized as two rows of gaming tables arranged back-to-back. The tables face outward toward a public aisleway. The space between the rows is restricted to dealers...
  
  , that part of a casino which holds gaming tables
• Trapping pit
  Trapping pit
  Trapping pits are deep pits dug into the ground, or built from stone, in order to trap animals.European rock drawings and cave paintings reveal that the elk and moose have been hunted since the stone age using trapping pits. In Northern Scandinavia one can still find remains of trapping pits used...
  
  , pits used for hunting
• Pit, one of many indentations used to store data on a Compact Disc
  Compact Disc
  The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
  
  
• Pit, an area of a racetrack where pit stop
  Pit stop
  In motorsports, a pit stop is where a racing vehicle stops in the pits during a race for refuelling, new tires, repairs, mechanical adjustments, a driver change, or any combination of the above...
  
  s are conducted
• Pit, a part of a trading floor where open outcry
  Open outcry
  Open outcry is the name of a method of communication between professionals on a stock exchange or futures exchange. It involves shouting and the use of hand signals to transfer information primarily about buy and sell orders...
  
   takes place
• PIT-1, a gene
• Pit bull
  Pit bull
  A Pit bull is any of several breeds of dog in the molosser breed group.Many jurisdictions that restrict pit bulls, including Ontario, Canada,, Miami, Florida, U.S...
  
  , a breed of dog
• Pit cave
  Pit Cave
  A pit cave, or vertical cave — or often simply called a pit or pot — is a type of natural cave which contains one or more significant vertical shafts rather than being predominantly a conventional horizontal cave passage. Pit caves typically form in limestone as a result of long-term erosion by...
  
  , a natural cave containing a vertical shaft
• PIT maneuver
  PIT maneuver
  The PIT maneuver is a method by which one car pursuing another can force the pursued vehicle to abruptly turn sideways to the direction of travel, causing the driver to lose control and stop. The backronym "PIT" has a number of different meanings, depending on the agency using it or school...
  
  , a method used by law enforcement
• Party of Independence and Labour
  Party of Independence and Labour
  The Party of Independence and Labour is a communist political party in Senegal. Its current general secretary is Amath Dansokho.PIT emerged out of the Senegalese branch of the African Independence Party . At the time of the 1960 local elections, PAI was accused by the government of fomenting...
  
  , a Senegalese political party
• Open-pit mines, pits in the earth used for extracting minerals
• Point-in-time, tuple-versioning in a relational database management system
• WF-31, a cocaine analogue
• John Pitts (Catholic scholar) (1560−1616), also spelled Pits or Pitseus
• A coal mine, also known as a pit in parts of England

Science and technology

• Pit, an excavation in metal caused by pitting corrosion
  Pitting corrosion
  Pitting corrosion, or pitting, is a form of extremely localized corrosion that leads to the creation of small holes in the metal. The driving power for pitting corrosion is the depassivation of a small area, which becomes anodic while an unknown but potentially vast area becomes cathodic, leading...
  
  
• Pit (nuclear weapon)
  Pit (nuclear weapon)
  The pit is the core of an implosion weapon – the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it. Some weapons tested during the 1950s used pits made with U-235 alone, or in composite with plutonium, but all-plutonium pits are the smallest in diameter and have been the standard...
  
  , the core of an implosion weapon
• Pressure Indicator Transmitter, abbreviation used in piping and instrumentation diagram
  Piping and instrumentation diagram
  A piping and instrumentation diagram/drawing is a diagram in the process industry which shows the piping of the process flow together with the installed equipment and instrumentation.-Contents and Function:...
  
  s
• Programmable interval timer
  Programmable Interval Timer
  In computing and in embedded systems, a programmable interval timer is a counter which triggers an interrupt when it reaches the programmed count.- Common features :...
  
  , a computing device
• Pulsed inductive thruster
  Pulsed inductive thruster
  Pulsed inductive thrusters are a form of ion thruster, used in spacecraft propulsion. A PIT uses perpendicular electric and magnetic fields to accelerate a propellant. A nozzle releases a puff of gas which spreads across a flat induction coil of wire about 1 meter across...
  
  , a device used in spacecraft propulsion
• Passive Integrated Transponder, an RFID tag without a power source of its own
• Pit, endocarp of a fruit

Places and sports teams

• Doły Jasielsko-Sanockie "Pits", the lowest mountain ranges of the Carpathian Mountains in Poland
• Joseph Scelsi Intermodal Transportation Center
  Joseph Scelsi Intermodal Transportation Center
  The Joseph Scelsi Intermodal Transportation Center is a long-distance ground travel terminal serving the Pittsfield, Massachusetts area and surrounding areas. Named after Joseph Scelsi, a longtime State Representative who represented Pittsfield, the center opened in 2004 adjacent to the site of...
  
  , a rail and bus terminal in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
• The People's Improv Theater, a venue in New York City
• Pit River
  Pit River
  The Pit River is a major river draining from northeastern California into the state's Central Valley. The Pit, the Klamath and the Columbia are the only three rivers in the U.S...
  
  , a watershed in California
• PIT, abbreviation for Pittsburgh, often used in conjunction with the city's sports teams
• Pittsburgh International Airport
  Pittsburgh International Airport
  Pittsburgh International Airport , formerly Greater Pittsburgh Airport, Greater Pittsburgh International Airport and commonly referred to as Pittsburgh International, is a joint civil–military international airport located in the Pittsburgh suburb of Findlay Township, approximately west of...
  
  , PIT in IATA code

Games

• Pit (game)
  Pit (game)
  Pit is a fast-paced card game for three to eight players, designed to simulate open outcry bidding for commodities. The game was developed for Parker Brothers and first sold in 1904...
  
  , a Parker Brothers card game simulating a commodities exchange
• Pit (Nintendo), a character in the Kid Icarus video game series
• Pits (card game), a card game similar to whist and rummy
• Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time

Musical performance

• A front ensemble
  Front ensemble
  In a marching band or drum corps, the front ensemble or pit is the stationary percussion ensemble. This ensemble is typically placed in front of the football field, though some groups will work the front ensemble into a tight pod onto the marching field...
  
  , the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps
• Mosh pit, an area for dancing at a concert
• Orchestra pit
  Orchestra pit
  An orchestra pit is the area in a theater in which musicians perform. Orchestral pits are utilized in forms of theatre that require music or in cases when incidental music is required...
  
  , the area in a theater in which musicians perform

Mathematics

• Boolean prime ideal theorem
  Boolean prime ideal theorem
  In mathematics, a prime ideal theorem guarantees the existence of certain types of subsets in a given abstract algebra. A common example is the Boolean prime ideal theorem, which states that ideals in a Boolean algebra can be extended to prime ideals. A variation of this statement for filters on...
  
  , which guarantees the existence of certain types of subsets in a given abstract algebra
• Polynomial identity testing

See also

• The Pit (disambiguation)
• Pitt (disambiguation)
• Pitts (disambiguation)
• Bottomless pit (disambiguation)
• Cockpit
  Cockpit
  A cockpit or flight deck is the area, usually near the front of an aircraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft. Most modern cockpits are enclosed, except on some small aircraft, and cockpits on large airliners are also physically separated from the cabin...
  
  
• Hole (disambiguation)