Usually means: Suitable and effective for purpose.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word fit:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. fit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fit, fit, fit, fit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fit, fit, fit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fit, fit: Wordnik
  7. fit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. FIT, FiT, fit: Wiktionary
  9. fit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. FIT: Dictionary.com
  13. fit (adj.), fit (n.1), fit (n.2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FIT, Fit (manufacturing), Fit, .fit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fit: Rhymezone
  19. fit, fit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. FIT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. FIT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. fit: Free Dictionary
  24. fit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. fit: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. fit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  3. FIT: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. FIT: Accounting Glossary
  4. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  5. fit: Legal dictionary
  6. fit: Financial dictionary
  7. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. fit: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. FIT: Acronym Finder
  2. FIT: Glossary of Translation and Interpreting Terminology
  3. FIT: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. fit: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fit, fit, fit, fit, fit, fit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fit: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. f.i.t: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Suitable, proper.
adjective:  Adapted to a purpose or environment.
adjective:  In good shape; physically well.
adjective:  (British, informal, chiefly slang) Sexually attractive; good-looking; fanciable.
adjective:  Prepared; ready.
verb:  (transitive) To be suitable for.
verb:  (intransitive) To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there.
verb:  (transitive) To conform to in size and shape.
verb:  (intransitive) To be of the right size and shape
verb:  (transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape.
verb:  (transitive) To tailor; to change to the appropriate size.
verb:  (transitive) To be in agreement with.
verb:  (transitive) To adjust.
verb:  (transitive) To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
verb:  (transitive) To equip or supply.
verb:  (transitive) To make ready.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To be seemly.
verb:  To be proper or becoming.
verb:  (intransitive) To be in harmony.
noun:  The degree to which something fits.
noun:  Conformity of elements one to another.
noun:  The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
noun:  (advertising) Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
noun:  (statistics) Goodness of fit.
noun:  (bridge) The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump.
noun:  (archaic) A section of a poem or ballad.
noun:  A seizure or convulsion.
noun:  (medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
noun:  A sudden outburst of emotion.
noun:  A sudden burst (of an activity).
verb:  (intransitive, medicine) To suffer a fit.
noun:  (slang) An outfit, a set of clothing.
noun:  (countable) Initialism of feed-in tariff.
noun:  (uncountable, aviation, travel industry) Initialism of fully inclusive tour.
noun:  (uncountable, aviation, travel industry) Initialism of fully independent travel.
noun:  Initialism of feed-in tariff.

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