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In computing, request sent to a file server.

Sites on the World Wide Web often measure their popularity in numbers of hits. However, this is misleading, as a single Web page may be made up of many files, each of which counts as a hit when a user downloads the whole page. Counting individual visits is a better indication of a site's success.

Hit

Town in Iraq, on the River Euphrates, 150 km/93 mi northwest of Baghdad. In ancient times (when the town was called Is) there were bitumen and naphtha pits here. Hit is now an important oilfield centre.
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"But I may come in contact with you," said the other, "if I come too close; and whether I hit you, or you hit me, I shall suffer for it.
Fables by Aesop View in context
Well, it was this way: directly I made my hit my press agent, a real bright man named Sherriff, got busy, of course.
Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.
The Prince by Machiavelli, Nicolo View in context
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