short for glove, or an abbreviation for Massachusetts Institute of Technology; in some contexts, a mitt for catching baseballs.
Shortened from 'mitt,' which comes from 'mitten.' As an abbreviation, MIT comes from the full name first established in 1861.
MIT is one of the few acronyms that became bigger than its full name—most people say 'MIT' without knowing it stands for anything, showing how institutions can become nouns in their own right.
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