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say it: nit
nit is a noun meaning "a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source". It is pronounced /ˈnɪt/ — nit. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.