English
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Noun
[edit]perfect pitch (countable and uncountable, plural perfect pitches)
- (music, uncountable) The ability to identify a note by name on hearing it, or to re-create a specified note from memory, without the benefit of an externally provided reference pitch.
- Synonym: absolute pitch
- Coordinate term: relative pitch
- (figurative, uncountable) By extension, a reliable innate sense of exactly what is true, appropriate, or needed in a given particular situation.
- 2015, Sophia Nguyen, “Mumblecore's Maestro: The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski”, in Harvard Magazine, September-October 2015:
- Bujalski has perfect pitch: an instinct for how language meanders, and the lacunae it circles around.
- (music, less common, countable or uncountable) The exact pitch of a note, described by its frequency in vibrations per second.
Translations
[edit]ability to identify or re-create a note
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exact pitch — see absolute pitch