A bit is a symbol used for communication or,

equivalently, a unit of information storage on a computer.

A bit is also used as a unit of information.

Bit or BIT may also refer to:

Tools and engineering

  • Drill bit, for drilling holes
  • Screwdriver bit
  • Tool bit, for lathe turning
  • Bit key, a key with a distinct part that engages the locking mechanism. The shape described by the bitting.
  • Bit (horse), part of horse tack placed in the mouth
  • The cutting edge of an axe
  • The heated part of a soldering iron

Arts and entertainment

  • Unit of action or bit, in acting
  • Bit part, a minor role
  • Bit (comedy), material from a standup comedian's repertoire
  • Bit, in the list of Tron characters
  • Bit (film), a 2019 vampire film

Organisations

  • Behavioural Insights Team, a social engineering organization
  • Bit Corporation, a video game company
  • Bipolar Integrated Technology, a former American semiconductor company
  • BIT Teatergarasjen, Norwegian theatre and dance company
  • Bright Ideas Trust, British social enterprise

Education

  • Bearys Institute of Technology, a private technical co-educational college, Mangalore, India
  • Bangalore Institute of Technology, an institution of higher learning in India
  • Beijing Institute of Technology, a university in China
  • Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, an engineering institute in Ranchi, India
  • Birla Institute of Technology, Patna, an engineering institute in Patna, India
  • BIT International College, formerly the Bohol Institute of Technology or BIT, in Bohol, Philippines
  • BIT Sathy or Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, India
  • Bhilai Institute of Technology – Durg, in Central India
  • Bangladesh International Tutorial- A school in Dhaka

Science and technology

  • Built-in test, in electronics
  • BIT (alternative information centre), a communal information service which derived its name from the smallest unit of computer information
  • Benzisothiazolinone, a biocide
  • BIT Numerical Mathematics a journal of mathematics
  • Binary indexed tree, a data structure
  • .bit, the former file extension for .mp3 before 1995

Other uses

  • BiT City agglomeration in Poland, Bydgoszcz–Toruń metropolitan area
  • Bit people, an ethnic group in Laos
  • Bit language, spoken by the Bit people
  • Bit (money)
  • Bachelor of Information Technology, a degree
  • Bilateral investment treaty
  • Bit or Bitburger, the beer of the Bitburger brewery
  • Bit, magazine for owners of home computers published by Ultrasoft
  • Beijing Institute of Technology F.C., an association football club in China
  • BIT, the National Rail station code for Bicester Village railway station, Oxford, England
  • Bittern railway station, Melbourne

See also

  • BITS (disambiguation)
  • Bitts, paired vertical posts used to secure a ship's mooring lines, ropes, hawsers, or cables
  • Bitten (disambiguation)