Pitch may refer to:

Acoustic frequency

* Pitch (music), the perceived frequency of sound including "definite pitch" and "indefinite pitch" **

Absolute pitch Absolute pitch (AP), often called perfect pitch, is a rare ability of a person to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone. AP may be demonstrated using linguistic labeling ("naming" a note), associating ...

or "perfect pitch" ** Pitch class, a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart **

Relative pitch Relative pitch is the ability of a person to identify or re-create a given musical note by comparing it to a reference note and identifying the interval between those two notes. For example, if the note ''Do'' and ''Fa'' is played on a piano, a per ...

, the ability to identify a given musical interval between two notes *

Pitch accent A pitch-accent language, when spoken, has word accents in which one syllable in a word or morpheme is more prominent than the others, but the accentuated syllable is indicated by a contrasting pitch ( linguistic tone) rather than by loudness ( ...

, a form of accentuation in speech

Business

* Sales pitch, a line of talk that attempts to persuade someone or something ** Pitch (filmmaking), a proposal for a film **

Elevator pitch An elevator or lift is a wire rope, cable-assisted, hydraulic cylinder-assisted, or roller-track assisted machine that vertically transports people or freight between floors, levels, or deck (building), decks of a building, watercraft, ...

, a very short sales presentation, allegedly short enough to be made during an elevator ride

Measurement

Movement about the transverse axis

* Pitch angle (or pitch rotation), one of the angular degrees of freedom of any stiff body (for example a vehicle), describing rotation about the side-to-side axis ** Pitch (aviation), one of the aircraft principal axes of rotation (nose-up or nose-down angle measured from horizontal axis) ** Pitch (ship motion), one of the ship motions' principal axes of rotation (bow-up or bow-down angle measured from horizontal axis)

Angle measurement

* Pitch or

grade (slope) The grade (also called slope, incline, gradient, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal. It is a special case of the slope, where zero in ...

, the steepness of a slope or an object confirming to a slope ** Roof pitch relates to the slope and inclination angle * Pitch, or

rake Rake may refer to: * Rake (stock character), a man habituated to immoral conduct * Rake (theatre), the artificial slope of a theatre stage Science and technology * Rake receiver, a radio receiver * Rake (geology), the angle between a feature on a ...

, in geology, the angle between a line and the strike of the plane on which it was found

Electromagnetism

* Pitch angle (particle motion), the angle between a charged particle's velocity vector and the local magnetic field

Mechanical engineering

Pitch angle (engineering) This page lists the standard US nomenclature used in the description of mechanical gear construction and function, together with definitions of the terms. The terminology was established by the American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA), under ...

, the angle between a bevel gears' element of a pitch cone and its axis

Linear measurement

"Pitch" is widely used to describe the distance between repeated elements in a structure possessing

translational symmetry In geometry, to translate a geometric figure is to move it from one place to another without rotating it. A translation "slides" a thing by . In physics and mathematics, continuous translational symmetry is the invariance of a system of equatio ...

: * Pitch (gear), the distance between a point on one tooth and the corresponding point on an adjacent tooth * Pitch (screw) the distance between turns of a screw thread **

Blade pitch Blade pitch or simply pitch refers to the angle of a blade in a fluid. The term has applications in aeronautics, shipping, and other fields. Aeronautics In aeronautics, blade pitch refers to the angle of the blades of an aircraft propeller or ...

the distance between the front edge and the rear edge of a propeller blade ** Pitch, the distance between passes in the helical scanning pattern of X-ray computed tomography * Pitch (typewriter), the number of characters and spaces in one inch (25.4 mm) of running text * Pitch, the distance between bits in a parallel integrated circuit element such as a

register file A register file is an array of processor registers in a central processing unit (CPU). Register banking is the method of using a single name to access multiple different physical registers depending on the operating mode. Modern integrated circuit- ...

* Dot pitch in images * Pin pitch, the distance between centers of pins in electronics packaging * Seat pitch, the spacing between seat rows in an aircraft

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Pitch'' (film) * ''Pitch'' (TV series) * '' Pitch Weekly'', a free urban weekly newspaper in Kansas City

Plants

* Pitch (resin), a viscous substance produced by plants or formed from petroleum *

Pitch Pine ''Pinus rigida'', the pitch pine, is a small-to-medium-sized pine. It is native to eastern North America, primarily from central Maine south to Georgia and as far west as Kentucky. It is found in environments which other species would find unsuit ...

(''Pinus rigida''), trees

Sports and recreation

* Pitch (ascent/descent), a term used in climbing and also caving *

Pitch (baseball) In baseball, the pitch is the act of throwing the baseball toward home plate to start a play. The term comes from the Knickerbocker Rules. Originally, the ball had to be thrown underhand, much like Horseshoes (game), "pitching in horseshoes". ...

, a throw of a baseball from a pitcher to the catcher(s) *

Pitch (card game) Pitch (or "High Low Jack") is an American trick-taking card game derived from the English game of All Fours (Seven Up). Historically, Pitch started as "Blind All Fours", a very simple All Fours variant that is still played in England as a pub game ...

(or "High, or Low Jack"), an American trick-taking card game * Pitch (sports field), a field of play and is usually outdoors **

Cricket pitch In the game of cricket, the cricket pitch consists of the central strip of the cricket field between the wickets. It is long (1 chain) and wide. The surface is flat and is normally covered with extremely short grass, but can be completely d ...

Rugby pitch The team sports rugby union and rugby league have shared origins and thus many similarities. Initially, following the 1895 split in rugby football, rugby union and rugby league differed in administration only. Soon, however, the rules of rugby ...

** Football pitch * The

bounce Bounce or The Bounce may refer to: * Deflection (physics), the event where an object Collision, collides with and bounces against a plane surface Books * Mr. Bounce, a character from the Mr. Men series of children's books Broadcasting, film and ...

of a cricket ball * Pitch, a

lateral pass In gridiron football, a lateral pass or lateral (officially backward pass in American football and onside pass in Canadian football) occurs when the ball carrier throws the football to a teammate in a direction parallel to or away from the oppon ...

in gridiron football * Pitching, the process of assembling a

tent A tent () is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over, attached to a frame of poles or a supporting rope. While smaller tents may be free-standing or attached to the ground, large tents are usually anchored using gu ...