• Albanian: thëri f|p
• Bosnian: gnjida
• Croatian: gnjida
• Dutch: neet
• Fijian: lise
• Finnish: saivare, saivar
• French: lente
• German: Nisse
• Hawaiian: liha
• Hungarian: serke
• Ilocano: lisa
• Maori: riha
• Russian: гнида
• Serbian:

  Cyrillic: гњида

  Roman: gnjida

• Spanish: liendre

• Dutch: neet

• ttbc CJKV Characters: 蟣, 虮

Etymology 2

Latin nitere, to shine

Noun

1. A candela per square meter.

Anagrams

• tin

Bosnian

Noun

1. thread

Declension

Catalan

Etymology

nox.

Noun

1. night

Croatian

Noun

1. thread

Declension

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

1. thread

Derived terms

• nitka

Polish

Etymology

Niete.

Noun

1. rivet

Romanian

Etymology

From Niete.

Noun

1. rivet

Serbian

Noun

1. thread

Declension

Slovene

Noun

nit

1. thread

Swedish

Noun

1. The action of breaking very hard.
2. Small metal peg often used to join pieces of metal together, but is also used in e.g. jeans, and in clothes used by punk rockers for aesthetic reasons.
3. A lottery ticket which gave no reward.
4. Zeal.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• tvärnit (1)
• nitlott (3)

See also

• nita
• gå på en nit

Volapük

Noun

1. A staple.
2. A staple for office stapler.

Nit or NIT may refer to:

• The egg of a louse
  • Head lice (often known as "nits" in the United Kingdom)
• A trivial detail; the object of nitpicking
• An exceptionally tight poker player
• Nit (unit), a unit of luminance also called candela per square meter
• The Nits, a musical group
• National Invitation Tournament, a men's college basketball tournament
• Negative income tax, a proposed tax reform
• Neith, an Egyptian goddess
• Nat (information), a logarithmic unit of information or entropy

Schools

• National Institutes of Technology, Several Institutions of National Importance located in India
• Naval Institute of Technology, a school in Biliran, Philippines
• Northern Institute of Technology, a school in Germany
• Nekomi Institute of Technology, a fictional university in the anime/manga Oh My Goddess!
• Ningbo Institute of Technology, a university in Ningbo, China
• Nagoya Institue of Technology, a college in Nagoya, Japan
• Nippon Institute of Technology, a college in Saitama, Japan
• Nishinippon Institute of Technology, a college in Fukuoka, Japan

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