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IIT

IIT proper noun: any particular one of those various institutes. Also the initialism of Indian Institutes of Technology.

Proper noun

IIT

  1. (India) Any particular one of those various institutes.
    • My uncle dreamed of getting into an IIT and becoming an engineer.
    • There, working alongside graduates of elite institutions, [Ravi Kumar] discovered his potential. "I didn't go to an IIT [Indian Institute of Technology], but I felt like, 'Wait a minute, I'm able to compete with these guys," he says. Today, he runs Cognizant, a $36 billion global technology company...2025 June 20, Gabriel Snyder, “Finding Opportunity in Uncertainty: How Ravi Kumar is transforming IT firm Cognizant for the AI era. Periscope column”, in Newsweek, volume 184, number 20, page 22

Also used as

IIT is also the initialism of Indian Institutes of Technology.

IIT is also the ellipsis of Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology.

Synonyms of IIT

  • MSU-IIT

Words formed from IIT

Questions about IIT

What does IIT mean?
IIT means any particular one of those various institutes.
What part of speech is IIT?
IIT is a proper noun.

Words near IIT in the dictionary

  1. IIr.
  2. IIRC
  3. IIS
  4. IISS
  5. IIST
  6. IIT
  7. Iitaka dimension
  8. Iitaka dimensions
  9. Iitate
  10. IITian
  11. IITians

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