Associations to the word «Nit»

Wiktionary

NIT, noun. The egg of a louse.
NIT, noun. A young louse.
NIT, noun. (UK) (slang) A fool, a nitwit.
NIT, noun. A nitpicker.
NIT, noun. A minor shortcoming.
NIT, noun. A candela per square meter.
NIT COMB, noun. A fine-toothed comb used to remove nits from the hair
NIT NURSE, noun. (British) (dated) A nurse who periodically checked schoolchildren's hair for lice.
NIT NURSES, noun. Plural of nit nurse

Dictionary definition

NIT, noun. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
NIT, noun. Egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin