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固有名詞

IIT

1. (India) Initialism of Indian Institutes of Technology.
   • 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 79:

     Two years ago, when he’d started high school, Ma and Papa had launched a campaign to get him into IIT, hunting down private tutors who guaranteed success on billboards in Hazratganj city centre, finding question papers from previous years, notes from illustrious seniors, advice from inspirational students.

   1. (India) Any particular one of those various institutes.

      My uncle dreamed of getting into an IIT and becoming an engineer.

      • 2025 June 20, Gabriel Snyder, “Finding Opportunity in Uncertainty: How Ravi Kumar is transforming IT firm Cognizant for the AI era. Periscope column”, in Newsweek, volume 184, number 20, page 22:

        There, working alongside graduates of elite institutions, [Ravi Kumar] discovered his potential. "I didn't go to an IIT [Indian Institute of Technology], but I felt like, 'Wait a minute, I'm able to compete with these guys," he says. Today, he runs Cognizant, a $36 billion global technology company with nearly 350,000 employees.

2. (Philippines) Ellipsis of Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology.

   Synonym: MSU-IIT