Alternative spellings

• itt (obsolete)

Pronoun

it (subjective and objective it, reflexive and intensive itself, possessive adjective and noun its)

1. The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a non-human entity, to an inanimate thing with no or unknown sex or gender.

   Put it over there.

   Take each day as it comes.

2. The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a human entity of unknown sex or gender.

   She took the baby and held it in her arms.

3. Used to refer to oneself when identifying oneself, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.

   It's me. John.

4. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement.

   It is nearly 10 o’clock.

   It’s very cold today.

   It’s lonely without you.

5. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object.

   It is easy to see how she would think that.

   I find it odd that you would say that.

   He saw to it that everyone would vote for him.

See Wiktionary:English inflection for other personal pronouns.

Quotations

• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

Derived terms

• buy it
• do it
• move it
• that’s it
• watch it

IT may refer to:

• Information technology, a broad subject concerned with aspects of managing, editing and processing information
• IT, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and FIPS 10-4 country code for Italy
• IT, Iran Time, the time zone used in Iran, UTC+3:30 (also IRST)
• The Irish Times
• Income tax
• Iced tea
• IT, Immediate Transportation, the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulated importation method whereby imported goods may travel by bonded carrier to clear at a location remote from the point of importation to allow fluid movement of intermodal cargo. This type of bonded movement can be done for cargo to be consumed/released in the USA (called: IT) or for transportation and export from a remote port (called: T&E) or for local movement for immediate re-export (called: IE)
• Immortal Technique
• The IATA code for Kingfisher Airlines and Irtysh Avia
• Institutes of Technology in Ireland, in the educational system of Ireland
• IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, a scientific journal published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
• Internet television, television distributed via the Internet
• Internal Translator, an early compiler for the IBM 650
• Inclusive Tour, a package holiday that includes accommodation in addition to transportation
• International Times, an underground newspaper in London
• A type of electrical earthing system
• A metalinguistic marker in the Sanskrit grammar of Panini (grammarian)
• A series of enduro motorcycles from Yamaha Motor Company (e.g. IT175, IT250, IT490)
• Intercity Transit, a public transportation service in the State of Washington
• Intelligent Transit, a public transportation service in West Virginia
• One of the code names by which the Segway PT was known during development
• Invisibolt Technology, a version of set-through neck guitar neck
• Inferotemporal cortex, the highest-order cortical visual processing area of the brain
• (it), an abbreviation for intrathecal injection
• IT (file format), an audio file format
• The acronym-logo for heavy metal band Insidiöus Törment
• IT, a home renovations company also known as Integrated Transitions