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Hit

A unit measuring a person or IP address visiting a website. In general, the more hits a website generates, the higher revenue it earns from advertising and other sources.

hit

1. To sell a security at a bid price quoted by a dealer. For example, a trader will hit a bid.

2. To lose money on a trade. For example, a dealer may take a hit on the holdings of Moore's Fried Foods' common stock.

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Tyler Robinson and Albert Kiszka each finished with 2 hits for the Saxons.

Seagrist powers Barrington

Detroit's Norris gave up three runs - two earned - three hits and four walks in five innings.

Bumgarner breaks hand when hit by line drive, needs surgery

Natalie Hampton had three hits and drove in three runs and Madison Anthony had three hits and drove in three runs for the Beavers (8-1), who also got three RBIs from Lopez.

Ragin' Cajuns hold off Oregon

The objective of this paper is to obtain a filter using signal parameters of the AE hits. The description of the experiment and the obtaining and analysis of the data can be found in [3].

Discrimination of acoustic emission hits from dynamic tests of a reinforced concrete slab

1 90-DEGREE RULE: When the cue ball hits another ball at an angle, both balls deflect at a 90[degrees] angle.

Big shot: with the help of physics, a teenage pool player goes pro

Plate discipline can be taught and will produce more walks and a focus on getting good pitches to hit.

Winning high school baseball by the books

In his best-selling book, L'Effroyable Imposture (The Frightening Deception), Meyssan launched the claim that American Airlines Flight 77 did not hit the Pentagon.

9-11 conspiracy fact & fiction: an abundance of sensational and irrational conjecture about the September 11 terrorist attacks is being used to discredit any consideration of conspiracy in general

Joltin' Joe's 91 hits during the streak were randomly sprinkled throughout his 246 plate appearances.

DiMaggio's hitting streak: high "hit average" the key

As a software application, HITS stores information contributed voluntarily by system users who collect crime information on standardized forms, which require fewer than 30 minutes of preparation and data-entry time.

Washington State's crime-fighting tool. (HITS/SMART).(Homicide Investigative Tracking System! Supervision Management And Recidivist Tracking). )

"I have to confess that not having hits in America hasn't bothered me," she says.

Kylie incognito: except for her American gay following, international superstar Kylie Minogue remains an unknown quantity in the U.S. Will her new album change that? (music)

In her autobiography, Berry, Me and Motown (for publication info, please see our "Chart Toppers" box at right), Raymona Gordy Singleton, wrote of her unheralded (and uncredited) co-founding of the hit making institution with her former husband Berry Gordy.

The Fascinating Foremothers of Destiny's Child

Study hypotheses were: (a) the hit rate (rank of 1 or 2) for the group consensus judging method would be significantly higher than mean chance expectation and (b) the direct hit rate (rank of 1 only) for the negative-emotion targets would be significantly higher than mean chance expectation.