Dictionary

perfect pitch en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (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.
2. (figuratively, uncountable) By extension, a reliable innate sense of exactly what is true, appropriate, or needed in a given particular situation.
   • Bujalski has perfect pitch: an instinct for how language meanders, and the lacunae it circles around. 2015, Sophia Nguyen, “Mumblecore's Maestro: The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski”, in Harvard Magazine, September-October 2015:
3. (countable, uncommon, uncountable) The exact pitch of a note, described by its frequency in vibrations per second.

Forms

Antonyms

tone-deafness

Coordinates

relative pitch

Relateds

pitch-perfect

Synonyms

absolute pitch

Translations (17)

ro auz absolut (ability to identify or re-create a note) · pl słuch absolutny (ability to identify or re-create a note) · de absolutes Gehör (ability to identify or re-create a note) · et absoluutne kuulmine (ability to identify or re-create a note) · de Tonhöhengedächtnis (ability to identify or re-create a note) · sv absolut gehör (ability to identify or re-create a note) · fr oreille absolue (ability to identify or re-create a note) · fi absoluuttinen sävelkorva (ability to identify or re-create a note) · nb absolutt gehør (ability to identify or re-create a note) · ro ureche muzicală absolută (ability to identify or re-create a note) · es oído absoluto (ability to identify or re-create a note) · nl absoluut gehoor (ability to identify or re-create a note) · nl volmaakt gehoor (ability to identify or re-create a note) · mk апсолутен слух (ability to identify or re-create a note) · ru абсолю́тный слух (ability to identify or re-create a note) · el απόλυτο αυτί (ability to identify or re-create a note) · el απόλυτη ακοή (ability to identify or re-create a note)