Fitch

Fitch may refer to:

Family name

• Fitch (surname), family name of English origin

Places

In Antarctica:

• Fitch Glacier

In Australia:

• Mount Fitch, Northern Territory, former uranium mining site

In the United States:

• Fitch Creek, Pennsylvania
• Fitch, North Carolina, unincorporated community
• Fitch H. Beach Airport, Charlotte, Michigan
• Fitch Senior High School, Groton, Connecticut
• Mount Fitch (Massachusetts), third-highest summit in Massachusetts
• YMCA Camp Fitch on Lake Erie, in Springfield, Pennsylvania; named after John H. Fitch

Businesses

• Abercrombie & Fitch, clothiers
• Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, Chicago's oldest law firm
• Fitch Ratings Inc., international credit rating agency
• Fitch, a label launched by Madonna (studio) in 2007; with a special focus on the bakunyū niche

Ships

• USS Fitch (DD-462), US Navy destroyer
• USS Aubrey Fitch (FFG-34), U.S. naval ship

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)

See also

• Fitchburg (disambiguation)
• Fitchville, Connecticut