Science and Technology
- Pit, an excavation in metal caused by pitting corrosion
- Pit (nuclear weapon), the core of an implosion weapon
- Pressure Indicator Transmitter, abbreviation used in piping and instrumentation diagrams
- Programmable interval timer, a computing device
- Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion
- Passive Integrated Transponder, an RFID tag without a power source of its own
- Pit, endocarp of a fruit
- Pit (botany), a part of plant cell walls which allows the exchange of fluids
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“Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the sunshine falls on the path of the poet, he enjoys all those pure benefits and pleasures which the arts slowly and partially realize from age to age. The winds which fan his cheek waft him the sum of that profit and happiness which their lagging inventions supply.”
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