perfect pitch

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perfect pitch (countable and uncountable, plural perfect pitches)

  1. (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
  2. (figurative, uncountable) By extension, a reliable innate sense of exactly what is true, appropriate, or needed in a given particular situation.
  3. (music, less common, countable or uncountable) The exact pitch of a note, described by its frequency in vibrations per second.

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