What does FITTING mean?

Definitions for FITTING
ˈfɪt ɪŋfit·ting

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. adjustment, accommodation, fittingnoun

    making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances

  2. fittingnoun

    a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system

  3. appointment, fittingnoun

    (usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)

  4. fitting, try-on, trying onadjective

    putting clothes on to see whether they fit

  5. fittingadjective

    in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion

    "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field...It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this"

  6. fitting, meetadjective

    being precisely fitting and right

    "it is only meet that she should be seated first"

Wiktionary

  1. fittingnoun

    A small detachable part of a device or machine.

  2. fittingnoun

    The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit.

  3. fittingnoun

    The process of applying craft methods such as skilled filing to the making and assembling of machines or other products.

  4. fittingnoun

    Domestic moveable piece of furniture, which can be taken along when moving out, US furnishing. Opposite of fixture.

  5. fittingadjective

    appropriate, or in keeping

ChatGPT

  1. fitting

    Fitting refers to the process of making something appropriate or suited for a particular purpose or situation. It could involve adjusting, altering, or tailoring an object, model, data, clothing, or even a software to match specific requirements or measurements. In statistics, it relates to the process of selecting a mathematical model to represent and accurately describe a collection of data.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fitting

    of Fit

  2. Fittingnoun

    anything used in fitting up

  3. Fittingnoun

    necessary fixtures or apparatus; as, the fittings of a church or study; gas fittings

  4. Fittingadjective

    fit; appropriate; suitable; proper

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FITTING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fitting is ranked #26814 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Fitting surname appeared 907 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fitting.

    94.8% or 860 total occurrences were White.
    2.7% or 25 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.8% or 8 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.8% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'FITTING' in Nouns Frequency: #2564

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of FITTING in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of FITTING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of FITTING in a Sentence

  1. Kent Larson:

    (Transforming) solutions need to be designed as furniture to allow for retro-fitting and new construction, they also need to be effortless to be sustainable for daily life -- almost magical. Transforming your apartment should be as easy as opening a door.

  2. Warren Bennis:

    People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

  3. Ashlyn Harris:

    She's just her and doesn't care being normal and fitting in and being ordinary. I can appreciate that. She owns her story, all of her story. I think a lot of us can learn something from that.

  4. Australian Sen. Richard Di Natale:

    It is incredibly fitting that today we are passing this bill which is one step towards making medicinal cannabis accessible to people like Dan, thank you to Lucy for everything you have done. Please know that your family's grief, pain and suffering has not been in vain and this is a legacy that Dan will leave here in Parliament.

  5. Dana Santas:

    Fitting in 10 minutes of exercise every day is so much easier than people think. Consider how fast 10 minutes goes by when you’re mindlessly scrolling social media or watching your favorite TV show, it’s not a big-time investment, but it can deliver big health benefits.

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