Hit means to strike, cause to come into contact with forcefully, or deal a blow to an object. The word hit or hits can also mean:

• in American football, where a defensive or special teams player successfully makes a particularly aggressive tackle by running hard into the opposing player.
• in archery and in target shooting, striking the exact desired spot, commonly the center of a target.
• in baseball, the act of safely reaching first base, or any other base after batting the ball into fair territory; see hit (baseball).
• in blackjack, when a player asks the dealer for another card, it is called a hit.
• in computer and video games, martial arts, or military slang, 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 computer searches (e.g. using a search engine), an item found to match the specified search conditions.
• 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 marketing, a success involving (sudden) popularity of and demand for a particular item, such as a song that reaches the hit parade.
• in music, any song that makes the top end of the charts. Hit can also mean a sudden music outburst used as an element of surprise or a high point in a musical story. See also : One-hit wonder
• in political geography, Hīt is a town in Iraq.
• in recreational drug use, a single dose of a drug.
• in slang, a term for an assassination by an organized crime syndicate; see hitman, can also mean "have sex", or a single inhalation of cannabis smoke (from the Urban dictionary).
• in web analytics, a hit is any request for a file from a web server.

As an acronym, HIT or HITS can mean:

• Harbin Institute of Technology, one of the premier research universities in China.
• Health Information Technology, which is associated with Health informatics
• Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.
• Hibernation Inducement Trigger, a chemical with potentially wide applications in organ transplantation and space travel.
• High Intensity Training.
• HITS algorithm, Hypertext Induced Topic Selection, a means to rank web pages in search results.
• Human Intelligence Task, see Amazon Mechanical Turk

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