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 ...

. 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 List of islands in the Adriatic, Adriatic island off the coast of northern Dalmatia in Croatia with an area of 60.11 km2, located ...

, Croatia * Sit, Bashagard, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran * Sit, Gafr and Parmon, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran * Sit, Minab, 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, offici ...

, 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 operations ...

, a specialized team of officers in Japanese law enforcement consisting of officers trained to investigate serious crimes with SWAT elements attached. * Strategic Information Technology, a Canadian banking software company

Educational organizations and certification

* Salazar Institute of Technology, Cebu, Philippines * Schaffhausen Institute of Technology, Schaffhausen, Switzerland * School of Information Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand *

School of Information Technology The School of Information Technology Kolkata (also SIT and formerly IIIT-C) is the Information Technology Department of the WBUT. The institution started as Indian Institute of Information Technology - Calcutta in 2000 with seed support from the ...

, 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, Tokyo, Japan * Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, Karnataka, India * Siliguri Institute of Technology, West Bengal, India * Singapore Institute of Technology, an autonomous university in Singapore * Southeastern Institute of Technology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States * Southern Institute of Technology, 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 mechanica ...

, 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 relevant social group. As originally formulated by social psychologists Henri Tajfel and John Turner in the 1970s and the 1980s, social ...

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 percep ...

, 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 ''Euro ...

* SIT or SITh, static induction thyristor * 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 origina ...

* 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/ ...

, a process in software engineering * Special information tones (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 ''interacti ...

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

high-intensity interval training High-intensity interval training (HIIT) is a training protocol alternating short periods of intense or explosive anaerobic exercise with brief recovery periods until the point of exhaustion. HIIT involves exercises performed in repeated quick bu ...

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 ...

, a technique for managing insect populations * Systematic Inventive Thinking, a practical methodology for innovation and creative problem solving ** Systematic Inventive Thinking (company), 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 f ...

* SIT, National Rail station code for Sittingbourne railway station, 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 199 ...

, the ISO 4217 code for the former currency of Slovenia * SİT areas in Turkey, archaeological sites in Turkey * Sit (surname), 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 Austr ...

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