kit meaning

• Noun: kit  kit
  1. A case for containing a set of articles 
  2. Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose
     - outfit 
  3. Young of any of various fur-bearing animals
     "a fox kit"
  Verb: kit (kitted,kitting)  kit
  1. Supply with a set of articles or tools
     - kit out, kit up

  Derived forms: kits, kitted, kitting

  Type of: appurtenance, case, equip, fit, fit out, gear, outfit, paraphernalia, young mammal

  Encyclopedia: Kit

• 
  [British slang]
  Noun. Clothes. See 'get one's kit off'.
  
• 
  [Business]
  noun

  PRESS KIT

  1 [C,U]

  a set of tools, equipment, materials, etc. that you use for a particular purpose:

  a tool kit

  The printer is an expensive piece of kit.

  The computer comes with a starter kit of software

  (= one to help you start using the computer).

  2 [C]

  a set of parts ready to be made into sth:

  The car is designed to be assembled from a kit.

  selling furniture in kit form

• 
  [Electronics]
  A selection of components, associated equipment, supplies (such as wire and hardware), and instructions for constructing a piece of electronic equipment.
  

[Computer]
<jargon> (Usenet, possibly from DEC) Slang for a full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade. A source software distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series of steps using only standard Unix tools, and entirely documented by some reasonable chain of references from the top-level README file. The more general term distribution may imply that special tools or more stringent conditions on the host environment are required.

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Examples

1. fit the pieces of a model kit together
2. kit this man out with everything he needs.
3. did kit live a single man all his days?
4. "for a journey, sir!" cried kit.
5. i told him to have his kit sent along.