Noun: nit
Sample Sentences
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This brightness of this LCD screen is between 900 and 1000 nits.
Nouns inflected like nit
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu, from Proto-Germanic *hnits (compare Dutch neet, German Nisse, Norwegian nit), from Proto-Indo-European *-níd- (compare Scottish Gaelic sneadh, Lithuanian gli̇̀nda, Polish gnida, Albanian thëri, Ancient Greek κονίς (konís)). See: Middle English Nouns '
nite', Old English Nouns '
hnitu', Dutch Nouns '
neet', German Nouns '
Nisse', Polish Nouns '
gnida', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κονίς'.
Verbs referencing "nit"
Ancient Greek Nouns
κονίς, Latvian Nouns
gnīda.