Fitch

Fitch may refer to:

Family name

Places

In Antarctica:

In Australia:

  • Mount Fitch, Northern Territory, former uranium mining site

In the United States:

Businesses

Ships

Heraldry

  • Fitch (or cross fitchy), a cross in heraldry where the lower part is shaped like a sword blade

Mathematics, logic and technology

  • 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

  • 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)
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See also

  • Fitchburg (disambiguation)
  • Fitchville, Connecticut
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