nit

Meanings

1. The egg of a louse.
2. A young louse.
3. A head louse regardless of its age.
4. A fool, a nitwit.
5. A minor shortcoming; the object of a nitpick.
6. A nitpicker.

1. To have the modus vivendi of a drug addict, to live the life of a nitty.

1. A candela per square metre.

1. Synonym of nat (“logarithmic unit of information”).

1. A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.

1. Abbreviation of National Institute of Technology.

Etymology

From Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu, from Proto-Germanic *hnits (compare Dutch neet, German Nisse, Norwegian nit), from Proto-Indo-European *-níd- (compare Scottish Gaelic sneadh, Lithuanian gli̇̀nda, Polish gnida, Albanian thëri, Ancient Greek κονίς (konís)).