- in American Football , where a defensive or Special Teams player successfully makes a particularly aggressive tackle by running hard into the opposing player.
- in Archery and in Target Shooting , striking the exact desired spot, commonly the center of a target.
- in Baseball , the act of safely reaching First Base after batting the ball into Fair territory; see Hit (baseball) .
- in Blackjack , when a player asks the dealer for another card, it is called a .
- in Computer And Video Games , Martial Arts , or Military Slang , successfully striking an opponent with a weapon (including one's own fist, elbow, foot, knee, etc.), bullets, or other artillery to injure or kill them. To attempt such an attack and fail is called a " Miss ."
- in Computer searches (e.g. using a Search Engine ), an item found to match the specified search conditions.
- in Genetic Programming and other computer science optimisation techniques, a program scores a ''hit'' when its output is sufficiently close or equal to the target value for a particular test input; in some problems a program's Fitness may be given by the number of hits it collects when run on the entire Test Set .
- in Marketing , a success involving (sudden) Popularity of and Demand for a particular item, such as a Song that reaches the Hit Parade .
- in Music , any song that makes the top 40 of the Charts .
- in Political Geography , is a town in Iraq .
- in Recreational Drug Use , a single dose of a drug.
- in Slang , a term for an Assassination by an Organized Crime Syndicate ; see Hitman , can also mean "have Sex ", or a single inhalation of Cannabis smoke ( from the Urban dictionary ).
- in Web Analytics , a is any request for a File from a Web Server .
As an Acronym , or '''HITS''' can mean:
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