Pitch may refer to:

Acoustic frequency

Pitch (music) Pitch is a perception, perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale (music), scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associate ...

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

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

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 notes ''Do'' and ''Fa'' are played on a piano, a ...

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

Pitch accent A pitch-accent language is a type of language that, when spoken, has certain syllables in words or morphemes that are prominent, as indicated by a distinct contrasting pitch (music), pitch (tone (linguistics), linguistic tone) rather than by vol ...

, 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 produc ...

, 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 fi ...

, a proposal for a film **

Elevator pitch An elevator pitch, elevator speech, lift speech, or elevator statement is a short description of an idea, product, or company that explains the concept in a way such that any listener can understand it in a short period of time. This description ...

, 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 nos ...

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

Pitch (ship motion) Ship motions are the six degrees of freedom that a ship, boat, or other watercraft can experience. Reference axes The ''flight control surfaces#Vertical axis, vertical/Z axis'', or ''yaw axis'', is an imaginary line running vertically thr ...

, one of the ship motions' principal axes of rotation (bow-up or bow-down angle measured from horizontal axis) * Pitch-up, an uncommanded nose-upwards aerodynamical rotation of an aircraft.

Angle measurement

* Pitch or

grade (slope) The grade (US) or gradient (UK) (also called stepth, slope, incline, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line is either the elevation angle of that surface to the horizontal plane, horizontal or its tangent. I ...

, 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 inst ...

relates to the slope and inclination angle * Pitch, or

rake Rake may refer to: Common meanings * Rake (tool), a horticultural implement, a long-handled tool with tines * Rake (stock character), a man habituated to immoral conduct * Rake (poker), the commission taken by the house when hosting a poker game ...

, 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. Usag ...

, 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), unde ...

, 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 physics and mathematics, continuous translational symmetry is the invariance of a system of equations under any translation (without rotation). Discrete translational symmetry is invariant under discrete translation. Analogously, an operato ...

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

Pitch (screw) A screw 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 ''straight'' thread and t ...

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 An X-ray (also known in many languages as Röntgen radiation) is a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than those of ultraviolet rays and longer than those of gamma rays. Roughly, X-rays have a wavelength ran ...

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 ...

, 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). The instruction set architecture of a CPU will almost always define a set of registers which are used to stage data between memory and the functional units on ...

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 up'', a

hardstyle Hardstyle is an electronic dance music, electronic dance genre that emerged in the late 1990s, with origins in the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. Hardstyle mixes influences from techno, new beat and Hardcore (electronic dance music genre), har ...

track by Coone & Ghost * '' Pitch Weekly'', 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. Pitch produced from petroleum may be called bitumen or asphalt, while plant-derived pitch, a resin, is known as rosin in its sol ...

, 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 (climbing), 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 "pitching in horseshoes". Overhand pitching ...

, a throw of a baseball from a pitcher to the catcher(s) * Pitch (card game) (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 Australian, American and Canadian English is playing field or sports field. For m ...

, a field of play and is usually outdoors **

Cricket pitch A cricket pitch is the rectangular central strip of a cricket field between the two wickets, where most of the action takes place. It is long (1 Chain (unit), chain) and wide. The surface is flat and is normally covered with extremely sh ...

** Rugby pitch **

Football pitch A football pitch or 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 (association football), Laws of the Game, "The Field of Play". The pitch is ty ...

* The bounce 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), also called a pitch or a flip, occurs when the ball carrier throws or hands the football to a teammate in a dire ...

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 or 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 g ...