Crossword clues for perfect pitch
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
perfect pitch
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the five people in Saffran's group with perfect pitch had started learning aged four.
▪ Computer games that require a player to recognise perfect pitch might also help, Saffran says.
▪ I have neither perfect pitch nor a head for mathematics, and anyway who wants to compute the speed of history?
▪ In essays on whisky-tasting, sheath knives, deer hunting, he has a kind of perfect pitch.
▪ In pastoral terms, the program had perfect pitch.
▪ The woodwind maintained a perfect pitch and, like the strings and brass, produced a consistently voluptuous sound.
▪ Tom had perfect pitch and a wonderful recall and he could sing whole passages from Boccherini's aviary music.
▪ You had perfect pitch, my love.
Wiktionary
perfect pitch
n. 1 (context music English) The ability to identify a note by name without the benefit of a reference note. 2 (context less common English) The exact pitch of a note described by its frequency in vibrations per second.
WordNet
perfect pitch
n. the ability to identify the pitch of a tone [syn: absolute pitch]
Usage examples of "perfect pitch".
Or he could wait, with the bat on his shoulder, for the perfect pitch.
And more than that, she could feel it, sense it from inside her, as if it was causing her very bones to vibrate at its perfect pitch.
Once or twice, when his ear was fast enough to catch a fragment, he tried humming it back to them in perfect pitch, but the effort seemed to make no impression.