PITCH

'Pitch' may refer to:
In 'music':

★ Pitch (music), the property of a sound or musical tone measured by its perceived frequency

★ Vocal range and instrumental pitch range

★ Musical tuning explains pitch systems and pitch standards

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★ Absolute pitch and relative pitch

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★ Definite pitch and indefinite pitch
In 'speech', 'language', 'hearing', and 'signal processing':

★ Pitch accent, the system employed by tonal languages

★ Tone (linguistics) explains the variation of meaning with pitch

★ Paralanguage explains how tone of voice carries emotional meaning

★ Pitch (psychophysics), the perceptual correlate of the frequency of a sound wave

★ Pitch shifter (audio processor), an electronic device for modifying the pitch of sounds

★ Pitch detection algorithm, an algorithm to estimate the fundamental frequency of speech or musical instrument
In 'nature':

★ Pitch (resin), a viscous liquid, derived from plants or petroleum products, often used for waterproofing and sealing boats, and flat or low-sloping roofs

★ Pitch Pine, a tree species rich in resin
In 'recreation':

★ Pitch (baseball), a throw of a baseball to a batter

★ Pitch (sports), a playing field for various sports (especially in British and Australian English):

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★ Cricket pitch

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★ Football pitch

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★ Quidditch pitch (in the fictional game of Quidditch)

★ An open outdoor area for various activities:

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★ Camping pitch

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★ Concert pitch

★ Pitch (card game), a bidding, point-taking card game

★ The raising of a tent

★ The delivery of a golf ball with backspin

★ The delivery in a game of horseshoes

★ Pitch (vertical space); used in climbing and caving
In 'sales':

★ Sales pitch, a merchant's presentation of a product or service

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★ Pitch (filmmaking), a sales pitch in the movie industry

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★ Elevator pitch, a very short sales pitch

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★ Pitchware, a synonym for adware

★ The place where a busker performs is called their pitch
A 'measure of angle or incline':

★ Pitch (flight), an aircraft's attitude as nose up or down (see flight dynamics)

★ Blade pitch, the angle of a propeller

★ Roof pitch, the ratio of vertical over horizontal measurements in carpentry

★ Pitch (handwriting), in graphonomics

★ Pitch (mining), the inclination of mineral veins from the vertical (also rake or dip)
A 'measure of distance' between like items:

★ Dot pitch, the distance between dots in a computer display

★ Thread pitch, the distance between threads on a screw

★ Also, the distance between:

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★ complete turns of a helix

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★ teeth on a gear

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★ number of printed characters per inch (CPI) in a line of a typewritten page

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★ film perforations

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★ scanlines in video processing

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★ lamps in an LED display

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★ leads from an integrated circuit (SOIC for example)

★ In graphic arts, ''vertical pitch'' is the number of lines per inch on a printed page.
In 'other senses':

★ ''Pitch (film)'', a movie by Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice

★ ''Sales Pitch'', a short story by Philip K. Dick

★ "Bamboo Pitch" is the English translation of the name of a bamboo forest mushroom grown as a vegetable delicacy in China.

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See also

See also

★ Pitchfork