Hit Explained

Hit means to strike someone or something.

Hit or HIT may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

• Hit, a fictional character from Dragon Ball Super
• Homicide International Trust or HIT, a fictional organization in MacGyver
• Homicide Intervention Team or HIT, a fictional investigative organization in the HIT Indian film series (see below)

Film and television

• HIT (TV series), a Spanish high school-drama themed-awarded series
• H.I.T (TV series), a South Korean drama miniseries
• HIT Entertainment, a British-American production company
• Hit!, a 1973 crime film
• TV HIT, a Bosnian television channel
• HIT Universe, Indian crime thriller film series
  • , 2020 Indian Telugu-language crime thriller film by Sailesh Kolanu
    • , 2022 sequel film by Kolanu
  • HIT: The First Case (2022 film), 2022 remake of the 2020 Telugu film in Hindi

Music

• Hit song, a recorded song that becomes popular or commercially successful
• Hit (album), by Peter Gabriel
• "Hit" (The Sugarcubes song), a single by The Sugarcubes from their 1992 album Stick Around for Joy
• "Hit", a song by Guided by Voices from the 1995 album Alien Lanes
• "Hit", a song by The Wannadies from the 1997 album Bagsy Me
• Hit Records (Croatia), a Croatian record label
• Hit Records, a defunct American record company

Radio

• Hit FM (disambiguation)
• Hit Network, an Australian radio network

Brands and enterprises

• Hit (drink), a Venezuelan carbonated soft drink
• Hit (mosquito repellent), an Indonesian mosquito repellent
• Hitachi, Ltd., a Japanese multinational conglomerate
• Hongkong International Terminals Ltd.
• Heavy Industries Taxila, a military complex in Pakistan

Computing

• Hit (internet), a single request for a file from a web server
• An intersection of the cursor and graphic object during hit-testing in computer graphics
• Human Intelligence Task, an Amazon Mechanical Turk task

Education

• Hanze Institute of Technology, in the Netherlands
• Harare Institute of Technology, in Zimbabwe
• Harbin Institute of Technology, in China
• Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, in India
• Holon Institute of Technology, in Israel

Language

• Hit (pronoun), Old English, third-person singular neuter accusative, "it" in modern English
• Hit, slang for contract killing
• Hittite language

Places

Iran

• Hit, Qasr-e Qand, a village in Iran

Iraq

• • Hit Rural District, Iraq
• Hit, Iraq, a town
  • Hit District, a district centered on the town

Norway

• Hitra, IIGA country code

Syria

• Hit, Daraa Governorate, a village
• Hit, Suwayda Governorate, a village with noted Roman/Byzantine ruins

Science and medicine

• Health information technology
• Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
• Herd immunity threshold; see herd immunity § Mechanism
• Hibernation induction trigger

Sports

• Hit (baseball) or base hit
• High intensity training
• The Hit (Chuck Bednarik), a November 20, 1960, tackle by Chuck Bednarik of the Philadelphia Eagles on Frank Gifford of the New York Giants

See also

• Hits (disambiguation)
• The Hit (disambiguation)