Sit commonly refers to

sitting Sitting is a basic action and resting position in which the body weight is supported primarily by the bony ischial tuberosities with the buttocks in contact with the ground or a horizontal surface such as a chair seat, instead of by the lower l ...

. Sit, SIT or Sitting may also refer to:

Places

Sit (island) Sit is an uninhabited Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea located between Žut and Pašman Pašman () is an Adriatic island off the coast of northern Dalmatia in Croatia with an area of 60.11 km2, located to the south of Zadar, surround ...

, Croatia *

Sit, Bashagard Sit ( fa, سيت, also Romanized as Sīt) is a village in Jakdan Rural District, in the Central District of Bashagard County, Hormozgan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a ...

, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran *

Sit, Gafr and Parmon Sit ( fa, سيت, also Romanized as Sīt) is a village in Gafr and Parmon Rural District, Gafr and Parmon District, Bashagard County, Hormozgan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Pers ...

, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran *

Sit, Minab Sit ( fa, سيت, also Romanized as Sīt) is a village in Senderk Rural District, Senderk District, Minab County, Hormozgan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country locate ...

, a village in Hormozgan Province *

Sit-e Bandkharas Sit-e Bandkharas ( fa, سيت بندخرس, also Romanized as Sīt-e Bandkharas; also known as Sīt) is a village in Gafr and Parmon Rural District, Gafr and Parmon District, Bashagard County, Hormozgan Province, Iran Iran, officia ...

, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran *

Sit (river) The Sit (Сить) is a tributary of the Rybinsk Reservoir (nominally, of the Mologa). The river flows for through Sonkovsky District of Tver Oblast and Nekouzsky and Breytovsky Districts of Yaroslavl Oblasts of Russia before entering the Rybinsk ...

, a river in Russia *

, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran

Organizations

Singapore Improvement Trust The Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) is a former government organisation that was responsible for urban planning and urban renewal in Singapore. Formally established in 1927 under the Singapore Improvement Ordinance, it was modelled after sim ...

, a government public housing organization *

Special Investigation Team (India) A Special Investigation Team (SIT) in India is a team appointed for investigation of serious crimes when the existing force is insufficient for the probe. The Supreme Court of India, Union Government of India The Government of India (ISO: ...

, a team of Indian investigators for serious crimes. *

Special Investigation Team The are tactical detective units of Japanese prefectural police. Special Investigation Teams are maintained by prefectural police headquarters and are trained to handle critical incidents including criminal investigation and tactical operatio ...

, a specialized team of officers in Japanese law enforcement consisting of officers trained to investigate serious crimes with SWAT elements attached. *

Strategic Information Technology Strategic Information Technology Ltd. (SIT) develops and sells banking software to banks, trust companies, credit unions, building societies, manufacturers and franchisor Franchising is based on a marketing concept which can be adopted by an ...

, a Canadian banking software company

Educational organizations and certification

Salazar Institute of Technology Salazar Colleges of Science and Institute of Technology (SCSIT) is an accredited educational institution of basic education and higher learning in Cebu City, Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Repub ...

, Cebu, Philippines *

Schaffhausen Institute of Technology Constructor, formerly known as Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT) is a private non-profit institute in Switzerland founded in 2019 by entrepreneur Serguei Beloussov. History The institute focuses on computer and software sciences and i ...

, Schaffhausen, Switzerland *

School of Information Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi School of Information Technology (SIT) School of Information Technology faculty is a small building near the library at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi ( KMUTT) in Bangmod, Bangkok Thailand that is the number one University of T ...

, Bangkok, Thailand * School of Information Technology, Kolkata, India *

School for International Training The School for International Training, widely known by its initials SIT, is a private non-profit regionally-accredited institution headquartered in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States. The institution has two main divisions. SIT Graduate Instit ...

, Brattleboro, Vermont *

Shibaura Institute of Technology The , abbreviated as , is a private university of Technology in Japan, with campuses located in Tokyo and Saitama. Established in 1927 as the Tokyo Higher School of Industry and Commerce, it was chartered as a university in 1949. The Shibaura I ...

, Tokyo, Japan *

Siddaganga Institute of Technology Sports The college has facilities for encouraging sports and games. Has well equipped gymnasium, basketball, volleyball court, cricket ground, race track, badminton court, and an indoor stadium. Ranking Siddaganga Institute of Technology is ...

, Tumkur, Karnataka, India *

Siliguri Institute of Technology Siliguri Institute of Technology (informally SIT) is a private engineering and management college, established in 1999 in Siliguri, West Bengal, India. Initially the college was under North Bengal University and from the year 2004 came under t ...

, West Bengal, India *

Singapore Institute of Technology Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borderin ...

, an autonomous university in Singapore *

Southeastern Institute of Technology Southeastern Institute of Technology (SIT), Huntsville, Alabama, was a professional school from 1976 to 2004 providing continuing education and granting professional degrees focusing on application. SIT was formed in 1976 as a private, not-for ...

, Huntsville, Alabama, United States *

Southern Institute of Technology , image = Southern Institute of Technology (New Zealand) logo.jpg , image_size = 200px , motto = , tagline = , established = 1971; years ago , faculty = 387 FTE 2005 , head_label = , students ...

, Invercargill, New Zealand *

Stevens Institute of Technology Stevens Institute of Technology is a private research university in Hoboken, New Jersey. Founded in 1870, it is one of the oldest technological universities in the United States and was the first college in America solely dedicated to mechanical ...

, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

Psychology

* Sexual Identity Therapy * SIT-lite, pejorative term for a form of

social identity theory Social identity is the portion of an individual's self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevance, relevant social group. As originally formulated by social psychologists Henri Tajfel and John C. Turner, John Turner in the 1970s ...

Structural Information Theory Structural information theory (SIT) is a theory about human perception and in particular about visual perceptual organization, which is a neuro-cognitive process. It has been applied to a wide range of research topics, mostly in visual form percept ...

, a theory of human perception

Science and technology

Sea ice thickness Sea ice thickness spatial extent, and open water within sea ice packs can vary rapidly in response to weather and climate. Sea ice concentration are measured by satellites, with the Special Sensor Microwave Imager / Sounder (SSMIS), and the ''Europ ...

* SIT or SITh,

static induction thyristor The static induction thyristor (SIT, SITh) is a thyristor with a buried gate structure in which the gate electrodes are placed in n-base region. Since they are normally on-state, gate electrodes must be negatively or anode biased to hold off-state. ...

* SIT,

static induction transistor The static induction transistor (SIT) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET) capable of high-speed and high-power operation, with low distortion and low noise. It is a vertical structure device with short multichannel. The device was original ...

* SIT, Simple Internet Transition, an IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling protocol * .sit, or .sitx, file extensions used for compressed files created with StuffIt *

System integration testing System integration testing (SIT) involves the overall testing of a complete system of many subsystem components or elements. The system under test may be composed of hardware, or software, or hardware with embedded software, or hardware/soft ...

, a process in software engineering *

Special information tones In telephony, a special information tone (SIT) is an in-band international standard call progress tone consisting of three rising tones indicating a call has failed. It usually precedes a recorded announcement describing the problem.BOC Notes on th ...

(telephony), a three beep signal indicating a call did not go through *

Specific ion Interaction Theory In theoretical chemistry, Specific ion Interaction Theory (SIT theory) is a theory used to estimate single-ion activity coefficients in electrolyte solutions at relatively high concentrations. It does so by taking into consideration ''interaction ...

, a theory for estimation of single-ion activity coefficients * Sprint interval training, a form of high-intensity interval training in which

sprinting Sprinting is running over a short distance at the top-most speed of the body in a limited period of time. It is used in many sports that incorporate running, typically as a way of quickly reaching a target or goal, or avoiding or catching an op ...

is interspersed with walking *

Sterile insect technique The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a method of biological insect control, whereby overwhelming numbers of sterile insects are released into the wild. The released insects are preferably male, as this is more cost-effective and the females ma ...

, a technique for managing insect populations * Systematic Inventive Thinking, a practical methodology for innovation and creative problem solving **

Systematic Inventive Thinking (company) S.I.T Systematic Inventive Thinking LTD. is a privately owned innovation company. Founded in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1995, it now has offices/affiliates in the UK, Australia, Chile, China, and Colombia. The company uses its proprietary Systematic ...

, a company based in

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

implementing the Systematic Inventive Thinking method in organizations

Transport

* SIT, IATA code for

Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport is a state-owned, public-use airport located west of the central business district of Sitka, a city and borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is named after Sitka's former mayor Rocky Gutierrez. It feat ...

* SIT, National Rail station code for

Sittingbourne railway station Sittingbourne railway station is on the Chatham Main Line and the Sheerness Line in north Kent. It is down the line from . Train services are provided by Southeastern. Ticket barriers are sometimes in operation, depending on the time of day. ...

, Kent, England

Other

Sino-Tibetan languages Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. ...

, the ISO 639-2 code *

Slovenian tolar The tolar was the currency of Slovenia from 8 October 1991 until the introduction of the euro on 1 January 2007. It was subdivided into 100 ''stotinov'' (cents). The ISO 4217 currency code for the Slovenian tolar was ''SIT''. From October 1991 un ...

, the ISO 4217 code for the former currency of Slovenia * SİT areas in Turkey, archaeological sites in Turkey *

Sit (surname) Xue () is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 薛 (Xuē). It is romanized as Hsüeh in Wade-Giles. In Hong Kong and Macau it is usually romanized through its Cantonese pronunciation Sit. In Korean, it corresponds to Seol (설), in Jap ...

, Chinese surname * "Sitting", a song from Cat Stevens' album ''

Catch Bull at Four ''Catch Bull at Four'' is the sixth studio album by Cat Stevens. The title is taken from one of the Ten Bulls of Zen. In the United States the album spent three weeks at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200. It also reached number one in Austra ...

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