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pitAn indentation in an optical medium such as a CD-ROM or DVD. The laser beam is either absorbed in the pit or reflects off the non-indented areas, which are called "lands." Using various algorithms, the reflections are converted into 0 and 1 bits.
pit 1. the pit hell 2. the area that is occupied by the orchestra in a theatre, located in front of the stage 3. Anatomy a. a small natural depression on the surface of a body, organ, structure, or part; fossa b. the floor of any natural bodily cavity 4. Pathol a small indented scar at the site of a former pustule; pockmark 5. any of various small areas in a plant cell wall that remain unthickened when the rest of the cell becomes lignified, esp the vascular tissue 6. a working area at the side of a motor-racing track for servicing or refuelling vehicles 7. a rowdy card game in which players bid for commodities 8. an area of sand or other soft material at the end of a long-jump approach, behind the bar of a pole vault, etc., on which an athlete may land safely 9. the ground floor of the auditorium of a theatre 10. another word for pitfall pit Chiefly US and Canadian the stone of a cherry, plum, etc. pit [pit] (botany) A cavity in the secondary wall of a plant cell, formed where secondary deposition has failed to occur, and the primary wall remains uncovered; two main types are simple pits and bordered pits. The stone of a drupaceous fruit. (metallurgy) A small hole in the surface of a metal; usually caused by corrosion or formed during electroplating operations. (mining engineering) A coal mine; the term is not commonly used by the coal industry, except in reference to surface mining where the workings may be known as a strip pit. Any quarry, mine, or excavation area worked by the open-cut method to obtain material of value. Pit, the Board of Trade’s cellar, where all bidding occurs. [Am. Lit.: The Pit. Magill I, 756–758] See : Gambling
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| Often they ceased their labors to squat, resting and gossiping, with much laughter, at the edge of the pit they were digging. And so he did not see or scent what a more wary Numa might readily have discovered until, with the cracking of twigs and a tumbling of earth, he was precipitated into a cunningly devised pit that the wily Wamabos had excavated for just this purpose in the center of the game trail. The gloom which surrounded that horrible charnel pit, which seemed to go down to the very bowels of the earth, conveyed from far down the sights and sounds of the nethermost hell. |
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