Pitch
Pitch may refer to:
Acoustic frequency
Business
- Sales pitch, a line of talk that attempts to persuade someone or something
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)
- Pitch-up, an uncommanded nose-upwards aerodynamical rotation of an aircraft.
Angle measurement
- Pitch or grade (slope), the steepness of a slope or an object confirming to a slope
- Roof pitch 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
Mechanical engineering
Linear measurement
"Pitch" is widely used to describe the distance between repeated elements in a structure possessing translational symmetry:
- 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 electronics packaging
- Seat pitch, the spacing between seat rows in an aircraft
Plants
Sports and recreation
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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