Fitch may refer to:

Family name

  • Fitch (surname), family name of English origin

Places

In Antarctica:

  • Fitch Glacier

In Australia:

  • Mount Fitch, Northern Territory, former uranium mining site

In the United States:

  • Fitch Creek, Pennsylvania
  • Fitch, North Carolina, unincorporated community
  • Fitch H. Beach Airport, Charlotte, Michigan
  • Fitch Senior High School, Groton, Connecticut
  • Mount Fitch (Massachusetts), third-highest summit in Massachusetts
  • YMCA Camp Fitch on Lake Erie, in Springfield, Pennsylvania; named after John H. Fitch

Businesses

  • Abercrombie & Fitch, clothiers
  • Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, Chicago's oldest law firm
  • Fitch Ratings Inc., international credit rating agency
  • Fitch, a label launched by Madonna (studio) in 2007; with a special focus on the bakunyū niche

Ships

  • USS Fitch (DD-462), US Navy destroyer
  • USS Aubrey Fitch (FFG-34), U.S. naval ship

Heraldry

  • Fitch (or cross fitchy), a cross in heraldry where the lower part is shaped like a sword blade

Mathematics, logic and technology

  • Fitch-style calculus, method for constructing formal mathematical proofs
  • Fitch's paradox of knowability, logical paradox which asserts that the existence of an unknown truth is unknowable
  • Fitch barrier, sand-filled plastic barrier used to cushion impacts on highways
  • Fitch-Margoliash method, weighted least squares method for clustering

Animals and plants

  • Fitch, the European polecat (Mustela putorius), a ferret-like predatory mammal
  • Fitch, a name for the spice kalonji, the seed of Nigella sativa (used in the King James's Version of the Bible)

See also

  • Fitchburg (disambiguation)
  • Fitchville, Connecticut