Meaning & use
MIT
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Meaning
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, famous for science and engineering.
Grammar: Said as three letters and used with a singular verb: MIT is hiring.
Patterns
- study at MIT
- a graduate of MIT
- MIT professor
She won a scholarship to study robotics at MIT.
An MIT team built the small satellite.
His brother is a professor at MIT.
Common combinations
- MIT graduate
- The founder is an MIT graduate who studied electrical engineering.
- MIT researchers
- MIT researchers have designed a new type of battery.
- MIT campus
- We walked along the river near the MIT campus.
- MIT Media Lab
- The MIT Media Lab mixes design, computing and art.
- accepted to MIT
- He was accepted to MIT after a long application process.
Synonyms and how they differ
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- This is the full formal name, used in official documents, while MIT is the normal short form in speech and news.
Word family
- Massachusetts proper noun
- the US state where MIT is located
Commonly confused: MIT or mitt?
MIT vs mitt
A mitt is a padded glove, as in a baseball mitt, and is pronounced as one syllable, unlike the three letters of MIT.
Practice
How is MIT normally pronounced in English?
Choose one answer.
MIT is an initialism, so each letter is spoken: em-eye-tee. It is not read as a word, which would make it sound like the glove called a mitt.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “MIT”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.