perfect pitch
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perfect pitch
noun perfect pitches
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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.
Similar: absolute pitch · Opposite: tone-deafness
- 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.
- The exact pitch of a note, described by its frequency in vibrations per second.
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noun ability to identify or re-create a note
| Español | oído absoluto |
|---|---|
| Français | oreille absolue |
| Deutsch | absolutes Gehör, Tonhöhengedächtnis |
| Ελληνικά | απόλυτο αυτί apólyto aftí, απόλυτη ακοή apólyti akoḯ |
| Română | auz absolut, ureche muzicală absolută |
| Русский | абсолю́тный слух absoljútnyj slux |
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