Pit
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Pit may refer to:
- Pit, any high walled depression in the ground, such as a quarry or (in Britain) an opencast coal mine.
- Pit or Colliery, a deep-shaft underground coal mine.
- Burial alive as a fictional method of execution based on The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe.
- Pit, the single seed in the center of a cherry, peach, plum, olive, avocado or other fruit.
- Pit, the nanometer-scale depressions holding the data in a compact disc.
- Pit, the part of a race track where pit stops are conducted.
- Pit, an area in a futures market where trading takes place.
- Pit, an area in a casino surrounded by gaming tables.
- pit, the hollow core of the fissile plutonium or uranium in a Nuclear weapon,
As a proper noun, Pit can refer to:
- the "Bottomless Pit", Hell
- Pit (game), a Parker Brothers card game based on commodities exchanges.
- Pits (game), a cross between whist and rummy.
- Pit (Kid Icarus), star of the Nintendo Entertainment System video game Kid Icarus.
- University Arena, a basketball venue on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
- McArthur Court, a basketball venue on the campus of the University of Oregon.
Pit can be short for:
- Armpit, a part of the body.
- Ball pit, a play structure.
- Mosh pit, the location for a type of dancing.
- Pit bull, a type of dog.
- Front ensemble, the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps
- Orchestra pit
- PIT, acronym/abbreviation for Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time
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Pit- As in Pita Pit
