Pitch

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In music:

• Pitch (music), the property of a sound or musical tone measured by its perceived frequency
• Vocal and instrumental pitch ranges
• Musical tuning explains pitch systems and pitch standards
  • Absolute pitch and relative pitch
  • Definite pitch and indefinite pitch

In signal processing:

• Pitch shifter
• Audio timescale-pitch modification
• Pitch detection algorithm

In speech and language:

• 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

In science:

• Pitch (resin), a viscous liquid, derived from plants or petroleum products
• Pitch Pine, a tree species rich in resin

In recreation:

• Pitch (baseball), a throw of a baseball to a batter
• An open outdoor area for various activities (especially in British and Australian English):
  • Cricket pitch
  • Football pitch
  • Quidditch pitch (in the fictional game of Quidditch)
  • Camping pitch
  • Concert pitch
• Pitch (card game), a bidding, point-taking card game
• The erection 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
  • Pitch (film), a sales pitch in the movie industry
  • Elevator pitch, a very short sales pitch
  • Pitchware, a synonym for adware

A measure of an 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 the distance between like items:

• Dot pitch, the distance between dots in a computer display
• Thread pitch, the distance between threads on a screw
• Pitch, the byte offset between scanlines in video processing
• Pitch, the distance between lamps in an LED display
• Also, the distance between:
  • complete turns of a helix
  • teeth on a gear
  • lines on a printed or typewritten page
  • film perforations

In other senses:

• Pitch (movie), a movie by Kenny Hotz
• Sales Pitch, a short story by Philip K. Dick
• The Pitch, an alt-weekly newspaper printed and distributed in Kansas City, Missouri.

See also

• Pitcher (container)
• Pitchfork
• Pitchblende
• Flight dynamics

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