"IIT" meaning in English

See IIT in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} IIT
  1. (India) Initialism of Indian Institutes of Technology. Wikidata QID: Q622358 Tags: India, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Indian Institutes of Technology
    Sense id: en-IIT-en-name-en:Q622358 Categories (other): Indian English
  2. (India) Initialism of Indian Institutes of Technology.
    (India) Any particular one of those various institutes.
    Wikidata QID: Q622358 Tags: India
    Sense id: en-IIT-en-name-en:Q6223581 Categories (other): Indian English
  3. (Philippines) Ellipsis of Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology. Wikidata QID: Q6863627 Tags: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Alternative form of: Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology Synonyms: MSU-IIT
    Sense id: en-IIT-en-name-en:Q6863627 Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, Philippine English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Universities Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 9 85 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 7 9 84 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 14 81 Disambiguation of Universities: 2 4 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: IITian

Inflected forms

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