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 relates to the slope and inclination angle * Pitch, or rake (geology), 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 angle between a charged particle's velocity vector and the local magnetic field

Mechanical engineering

* Pitch angle (engineering), 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: * Pitch (gear)#Pitch nomenclature, 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 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 * Dot pitch in images * Pin pitch, the distance between centers of pins in List of electronics package dimensions#Dimension reference, electronics packaging * Seat pitch, the spacing between seat rows in an aircraft

Arts, entertainment, and media

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

Sports and recreation

* Pitch (ascent/descent), 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) (or "High, or Low Jack"), an American trick-taking card game * Pitch (sports field), a field of play and is usually outdoors ** Cricket pitch ** Rugby pitch ** Football pitch * The Glossary of cricket terms#pitch, bounce of a cricket ball * Pitch, a lateral pass in gridiron football * Pitching, the process of assembling a tent