nit

/nɪt/

noun

  1. 1

    The egg of a louse.

  2. 2

    A young louse.

  3. 3

    A head louse regardless of its age.

  4. 4

    A fool, a nitwit.

  5. 5

    A nitpicker.

  6. 6

    A minor shortcoming.

noun

  1. 1

    A candela per square meter.

    “This brightness of this LCD screen is between 900 and 1000 nits.”

noun

  1. 1

    A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism.

noun

  1. 1

    A logarithmic unit of information or entropy, based on natural logarithms.

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