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Template:Wiktionary IT, It, or it may be an acronym, an abbreviation, or the English third person neuter singular pronoun —which is often used in a specialized sense, e.g. referring to some person or thing that cannot or should not be named. Template:TOCright
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As an acronym
IT (all in upper case, usually pronounced as separate letters) can be an acronym for:
- Information technology
- International Times, a leading underground newspaper in London
- An Institute of Technology, in the educational system of Ireland; also written "IOT"
- Impulse Tracker, a music sequencer software for DOS, and the music file format associated with it
- One type of electrical earthing system defined in the IEC 60364 standard
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
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As an abbreviation or symbol
IT (pronounced like a word, or as separate letters, with variable capitalization) may be the abbreviation or symbol of:
- Italian language (ISO 639 alpha-2, "it")
- Italy (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and FIPS 10-4 country code, "IT")
- Kingfisher Airlines (IATA code)
- A metalinguistic marker in the Sanskrit grammar of Panini (see Ashtadhyayi, Shiva Sutra)
- .it, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Italy.
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As a name or alias
It (pronounced like a word, possibly capitalized and/or in italics and/or in quotes) may be a special or emphatic meaning of the "it" pronoun, such as:
- A euphemism for sexual intercourse.
- "It", some all-important or indefinable quality, such as sex appeal: e.g. Clara Bow was the original "It girl"
- The distinguished player in tag, Marco Polo, Blind Man's Bluff, and other physical games
- It (monster), the title character of the novel by Stephen King
- Cousin Itt (spelled with two 't's), a monster character in the TV series The Addams Family
- It, the villain in Madeleine L'Engle's science fiction novel A Wrinkle in Time
- A fashionable, popular, or "in" thing, e.g. "Wikipedia is it!"
- A slogan by eBay.
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As a title
Many works and events have been named just It:
- It (1927 film), a romantic film about a shop girl in love with the handsome owner
- It (novel), a horror novel by Stephen King
- It (1990 film), a film version of the Stephen King novel
- It (Phish festival), a two day festival by the jam band Phish, held August 2003 in Limestone, Maine
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See also
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