IT

See also: Appendix:Variations of "it"

Translingual

Symbol

IT

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Italy.

   Synonym: ITA (alpha-3)

English

Alternative forms

• I.T.

Noun

IT (countable and uncountable, plural ITs)

1. Initialism of inclusive tour.
2. (geology) Initialism of intercept-time method.
3. (informatics) Initialism of information technology.
   • 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4:

     Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Ok. Well, are you sure that it's plugged in?

   • 2025 February 2, Vittoria Elliott, “The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover”, in WIRED‎^[1], archived from the original on 2025-02-02:

     Sources tell WIRED that Bobba, Coristine, Farritor, and Shaotran all currently have working GSA emails and A-suite level clearance at the GSA, which means that they work out of the agency’s top floor and have access to all physical spaces and IT systems, according a source with knowledge of the GSA’s clearance protocols.

Derived terms

• (informatics): IT/OT, shadow IT

Translations

information technology

• Arabic: أَي تِي m (ʔay tī), IT m
• Armenian: ՏՏ (hy) (TT)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: ICT (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: IT (et)
• Finnish: IT (fi)
• French: informatique (fr)
• German: IT (de) f, EDV (de)
• Japanese: アイティー (aitī), IT (ja) (aitī)
• Khmer: អាយធី (ʼaaythii)
• Korean: 아이티 (ko) (aiti), IT
• Lithuanian: IT f pl
• Polish: IT (pl) n
• Portuguese: TI (pt)
• Romanian: IT f, TI f
• Russian: ИТ (ru) f pl (IT), ай-ти́ f pl (aj-tí)
• Spanish: tecnología de la información f
• Thai: ไอที (th) (ai-tii)
• Turkish: BT (tr), İT
• Vietnamese: CNTT

information technology — see information technology

Adjective

IT (not comparable)

1. (medicine, pharmacology) Initialism of intrathecal.

Further reading

• IT on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• TI, T&I, t͞i, Ti., ti

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

IT f (uncountable)

1. Initialism of informatietechnologie (“information technology”).

Synonyms

• ICT

Derived terms

• IT'er m

Finnish

Noun

IT

1. Initialism of informaatioteknologia (“information technology”).
2. Initialism of ilmatorjunta (“air defense, anti-aircraft warfare”).

Derived terms

(compounds):

• it-oikeus

Lithuanian

Noun

IT (f)

1. Initialism of informacinės technologijos (“information technology”).

Malay

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English IT.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aj.ti]
• Rhymes: -ti, -i
• Hyphenation: I‧T

Noun

IT

1. Initialism of teknologi maklumat (“information technology”).

Further reading

• “IT” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

IT

1. Abbreviation of informasjonsteknologi (“information technology”).

References

• “IT” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

IT

1. Abbreviation of informasjonsteknologi (“information technology”).

References

• “IT” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.