nit

Meanings

Plural: nits

Noun

• 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
• The egg of a louse.
• A young louse.
• A head louse regardless of its age.
• A fool, a nitwit.
• A minor shortcoming; the object of a nitpick.
• A nitpicker.
• A candela per square metre.
• Synonym of nat (“logarithmic unit of information”).
• A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.

Verb

• To have the modus vivendi of a drug addict, to live the life of a nitty.

Synonyms

dickies, nat

Related Words

nit-noid, nitty