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 low ...

. Sit, SIT or Sitting may also refer to:

Places

* 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, Iran * Sīt, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran *

Sit (island) Sit is an uninhabited Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea located between Žut Žut () is an uninhabited island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea, in central Dalmatia. With an area of it is the List of islands of Croatia, 28th largest i ...

, Croatia * Sit (river), Russia

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 and state government A state govern ...

, a team of Indian investigators for serious crimes *

Special Investigation Team are Police tactical unit, tactical detective units of Japanese prefectural police forces. Special Investigation Teams are maintained by prefectural police headquarters (PPH) and are trained to handle critical incidents including criminal investi ...

, tactical detective units of Japanese prefectural police * 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, Kolkata, India *

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

, Brattleboro, Vermont, United States * Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan * Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, Karnataka, India * Siliguri Institute of Technology, West Bengal, India *

Singapore Institute of Technology The Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT or Singaporetech) is a public autonomous university in Singapore. The university offers industry-focused, applied degree programmes; it confers its own degree programmes as well as specialised degree ...

, an autonomous university in Singapore * Southeastern Institute of Technology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States *

Southern Institute of Technology The Southern Institute of Technology (SIT; ) is a public tertiary education institution (NZ TEI), established in 1971. It is one of New Zealand's largest institutions of technology, with 12,579 enrolees in 2021, contributing to a total of ...

, Invercargill, New Zealand *

Stevens Institute of Technology Stevens Institute of Technology is a Private university, 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 de ...

, 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 id ...

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 is measured by satellites, with the Special Sensor Microwave Imager / Sounder (SSMIS), and the ''Euro ...

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. ...

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 ...

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

StuffIt StuffIt is a discontinued family of computer software utilities for archiving and compressing files. Originally produced for Macintosh, versions for Microsoft Windows, Linux (x86), and Sun Solaris were later created. The proprietary compression ...

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 electromechanical or computer hardware, or software, or hardware with embed ...

, a process in software engineering *

Special information tone 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 ...

, a three beep signal indicating a call did not go through * Specific ion interaction theory, a theory for estimation of single-ion activity coefficients * Sprint interval training, a form of high-intensity interval training in which sprinting is interspersed with walking *

Sterile insect technique The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a method of biological pest control, biological insect control, whereby overwhelming numbers of infertility, sterile insects are released into the wild. The released insects are preferably male, as this is mo ...

, 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 implementing the systematic inventive thinking method in organizations *

Spectrum Information Technologies Spectrum Information Technologies, Inc. (SITI), formerly Spectrum Cellular Communications Corporation (SPCL; doing business as Spectrum Cellular Corporation), was an American telecommunications and networking hardware company active from 1983 to 2 ...

, a defunct American computer networking hardware company

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 ...

, United States * 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 referred to as Trans-Himalayan) is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 ...

, 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), 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 ...

'' * ''Somewhere In Time'' (Iron Maiden album) (1986)