Hit

The term hit can refer to any of the following:

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• in marketing, a success involving (sudden) popularity of and demand for a particular item, such as a song that reaches the hit parade
• in archery and in target shooting, striking the exact desired spot, commonly the center of a target
• in computer and video games, martial arts, or military combat, 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 recreational drug use, a single dose of a drug
• in baseball, the act of safely reaching first base after batting the ball into fair territory; see hit (baseball)
• a slang term for an assassination by an organized crime syndicate; see hitman
• in computer searches (e.g. using a search engine), an item found to match the specified search conditions
• in music, any song that makes the top 40 of the charts
• 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 blackjack, when a player asks the dealer for another card, it is called a hit
• in web analytics, a hit is any request for a file from a web server.

As an acronym, HIT can mean:

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• Hibernation Inducement Trigger, a chemical with potentially wide applications in organ transplantation and space travel
• Harbin Institute of Technology, one of the premier research universities in China
• in medicine, HIT denotes heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
• High Intensity Training

As an acronym, HITS can mean:

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• HITS algorithm, Hypertext Induced Topic Selection, a means to rank web pages in search results

Hit related Images and Photos (experimental)

Hit Man	Hit Man (1972) (DVD)	The Hit Man (1972)	Chance Hit I
Hit or Miss	Chance Hit II	Hit and Miss	Hit Him Again
Hit Him Again	Critical Hit Die	Hit the Ice 1943	I'd Hit That