Hit - Definition and Overview

HIT acronym can mean:

• Hibernation Inducement Trigger - a chemical with potentially wide applications in organ transplant and space travel
• as an acronym, HIT is Harbin Institute of Technology, one of the premier research universities in China.
• in medicine, HIT denotes heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

The term hit can refer to any of the following:

• in marketing, it means a success involving (often sudden) popularity of and demand for a particular item such as a song that reaches the hit parade;
• in archery and in target shooting, it means getting to the exact desired spot, commonly the center of a target;
• in recreational drug use, it is a single dose of a drug;
• in baseball, it is the act of safely reaching first base after batting the ball into fair play and an important statistic; and
• a slang term for an assassination by an organized crime syndicate.
• in using search functions of computers, each item found to match the specified search conditions is a search hit.
• Hīt is a town in Iraq.
• in music, a hit is any song that makes the top 40 of the charts.