Pitch may refer to:

Acoustic frequency

Pitch (music) Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodi ...

, the perceived frequency of sound including "definite pitch" and "indefinite pitch" ** Absolute pitch or "perfect pitch" **

Pitch class In music, a pitch class (p.c. or pc) is a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart; for example, the pitch class C consists of the Cs in all octaves. "The pitch class C stands for all possible Cs, in whatever octave positio ...

, 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 As a selling technique, a sales presentation or sales pitch is a line of talk that attempts to persuade someone or something, with a planned sales presentation strategy of a product or service designed to initiate and close a sale of the produ ...

, a line of talk that attempts to persuade someone or something **

Pitch (filmmaking) In filmmaking, a pitch is a concise verbal (and sometimes visual) presentation of an idea for a film or TV series generally made by a screenwriter or film director to a film producer or studio executive in the hope of attracting development fina ...

, a proposal for a film **

Elevator pitch An elevator or lift is a cable-assisted, hydraulic cylinder-assisted, or roller-track assisted machine that vertically transports people or freight between floors, levels, or decks of a building, vessel, or other structure. They are ...

, 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) An aircraft in flight is free to rotate in three dimensions: '' yaw'', nose left or right about an axis running up and down; ''pitch'', nose up or down about an axis running from wing to wing; and ''roll'', rotation about an axis running from ...

, one of the aircraft principal axes of rotation (nose-up or nose-down angle measured from horizontal axis) **

Pitch (ship motion) Ship motions are defined by the six degrees of freedom that a ship, boat or any other craft can experience. Reference axes The '' vertical/Z axis'', or ''yaw axis'', is an imaginary line running vertically through the ship and through its ...

, 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 Roof pitch is the steepness of a roof expressed as a ratio of inch(es) rise per horizontal foot (or their metric equivalent), or as the angle in degrees its surface deviates from the horizontal. A flat roof has a pitch of zero in either insta ...

relates to the slope and inclination angle * Pitch, or rake, in geology, the angle between a line and the strike of the plane on which it was found

Electromagnetism

Pitch angle (particle motion) The pitch angle of a charged particle is the angle between the particle's velocity vector and the local magnetic field. This is a common measurement and topic when studying the magnetosphere, magnetic mirrors, biconic cusps and polywells. See Au ...

, 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 equati ...

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Pitch (gear) A gear is a rotating circular machine part having cut teeth or, in the case of a cogwheel or gearwheel, inserted teeth (called ''cogs''), which mesh with another (compatible) toothed part to transmit (convert) torque and speed. The basic p ...

, the distance between a point on one tooth and the corresponding point on an adjacent tooth *

Pitch (screw) A screw thread, often shortened to thread, is a helical structure used to convert between rotational and linear movement or force. A screw thread is a ridge wrapped around a cylinder or cone in the form of a helix, with the former being called a ...

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 o ...

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 An X-ray, or, much less commonly, X-radiation, is a penetrating form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation. Most X-rays have a wavelength ranging from 10 picometers to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 ...

Pitch (typewriter) Pitch is the number of (monospaced) letters, numbers and spaces in of , that is, ''characters per inch'' (abbreviated cpi), measured horizontally. The pitch was most often used as a measurement of the size of typewriter fonts as well as those of i ...

, 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 *

Dot pitch Dot pitch (sometimes called line pitch, stripe pitch, or phosphor pitch) is a specification for a computer display, computer printer, image scanner, or other pixel-based devices that describe the distance, for example, between dots ( sub-pixels) ...

in images * Pin pitch, the distance between centers of pins in electronics packaging *

Seat pitch An airline seat is a seat on an airliner in which passengers are accommodated for the duration of the journey. Such seats are usually arranged in rows running across the airplane's fuselage. A diagram of such seats in an aircraft is called an ...

, the spacing between seat rows in an aircraft

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Pitch'' (film) * ''Pitch'' (TV series) * ''

Pitch Weekly ''The Pitch'' is a free alternative newspaper distributed in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, including Lawrence and Topeka, Kansas. While known for its investigative stories of the local government, it also covers local sports stories, rest ...

'', a free urban weekly newspaper in Kansas City

Plants

Pitch (resin) Pitch is a viscoelastic polymer which can be natural or manufactured, derived from petroleum, coal tar, or plants. Various forms of pitch may also be called tar, bitumen, or asphalt. Pitch produced from plants is also known as resin. Some produ ...

, a viscous substance produced by plants or formed from petroleum * Pitch Pine (''Pinus rigida''), trees

Sports and recreation

Pitch (ascent/descent) In rock climbing and ice climbing, a pitch is a steep section of a route that requires a rope between two belays, as part of a climbing system. Standard climbing ropes are between 50 and 80 metres long, so a pitch is always shorter, between two ...

, a term used in climbing and also caving * Pitch (baseball), 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 gam ...

(or "High, or Low Jack"), an American trick-taking card game *

Pitch (sports field) A pitch or a sports ground is an outdoor playing area for various sports. The term ''pitch'' is most commonly used in British English, while the comparable term in American and Canadian English is playing field or sports field. For most sports t ...

, a field of play and is usually outdoors ** Cricket pitch **

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 A football pitch (also known as soccer field) is the playing surface for the game of association football. Its dimensions and markings are defined by Law 1 of the Laws of the Game, "The Field of Play". The pitch is typically made of natural t ...

* The bounce of a cricket ball * Pitch, a lateral pass in gridiron football * Pitching, the process of assembling a tent