a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
"The lighting engineer adjusted the fixture angles until the average nit value on the display matched the target for the showroom."
egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
"After spending the day hiking in the woods, she had to carefully comb her dog's fur to remove every sticky nit clinging to his coat."
The egg of a louse.
"The coach sighed as another nit sat back on his heels instead of pressing forward to support the attack."
A candela per square meter.
Synonym of nat (logarithmic unit of information)
A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.
To have the modus vivendi of a drug addict, to live the life of a nitty.
"After his divorce and job loss, he began to nit around town all day long just to find someone who would buy him drugs."
The word "nit" comes from Middle English and Old English, originally referring to a louse egg. Its roots trace back to Proto-Germanic and ultimately to the Proto-Indo-European root *-níd-, which relates to laying eggs or nests.