Fitch
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Fitch may refer to:
Family name
[edit]- Fitch (surname), family name of English origin
Places
[edit]In Antarctica:
In Australia:
- Mount Fitch, Northern Territory, former uranium mining site
In the United States:
- Fitch Creek, Pennsylvania
- Fitch, North Carolina, unincorporated community
- Fitch H. Beach Airport, Charlotte, Michigan
- Fitch Senior High School, Groton, Connecticut
- Mount Fitch (Massachusetts), third-highest summit in Massachusetts
- YMCA Camp Fitch on Lake Erie, in Springfield, Pennsylvania; named after John H. Fitch
Businesses
[edit]- Abercrombie & Fitch, clothiers
- Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, Chicago's oldest law firm
- Fitch Ratings Inc., international credit rating agency
- Fitch, a label launched by Madonna (studio) in 2007; with a special focus on the bakunyū niche
Ships
[edit]- USS Fitch (DD-462), US Navy destroyer
- USS Aubrey Fitch (FFG-34), U.S. naval ship
Heraldry
[edit]- Fitch (or cross fitchy), a cross in heraldry where the lower part is shaped like a sword blade
Mathematics, logic and technology
[edit]- Fitch-style calculus, method for constructing formal mathematical proofs
- Fitch's paradox of knowability, logical paradox which asserts that the existence of an unknown truth is unknowable
- Fitch Barrier, sand-filled plastic barrier used to cushion impacts on highways
- Fitch-Margoliash method, weighted least squares method for clustering
Animals and plants
[edit]- Fitch, the European polecat (Mustela putorius), a ferret-like predatory mammal
- Fitch, a name for the spice kalonji, the seed of Nigella sativa (used in the King James's Version of the Bible)