{"id":3684,"date":"2006-09-27T09:28:42","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T16:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/09\/27\/nit.html"},"modified":"2006-09-27T09:28:42","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T16:28:42","slug":"nit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/09\/27\/nit\/","title":{"rendered":"nit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I thought I knew what a nit was (it's one of those things I'm always picking, right?), but it turns out there's another meaning: it's a unit of brightness, equal to 1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sizes.com\/units\/candela.htm\">candela<\/a> per square meter.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sizes.com\/units\/nit.htm\">nit<\/a> page at sizes.com helpfully notes that the abbreviation is \"nt,\" and that \"A good LCD computer monitor has a brightness of about 250 nits.\"  (That was last revised in mid-2002, so good LCD monitors may well be nittier than that by now.)<\/p>\n<p>I first encountered the word in a CNET story, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Tripping+the+lights+organic\/2100-1008_3-6111872.html?tag=st.txt.caro\">Tripping the lights organic<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n<p>Btw, the search function at sizes.com doesn't seem to work very well, so if you're having a hard time finding a unit, try their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sizes.com\/units\/index.htm\">index<\/a>.  Lots and lots of cool words there.<\/p>\n<p>According to MW3, this use of \"nit\" derives from Latin \"nitere,\" \"to shine.\"<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it turns out there are other definitions of \"nit\" as well.  In particular, in Australia, to \"keep nit\" is to keep watch.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I knew what a nit was (it&#8217;s one of those things I&#8217;m always picking, right?), but it turns out there&#8217;s another meaning: it&#8217;s a unit of brightness, equal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}