Meaning of perfect pitch | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“Bujalski has perfect pitch: an instinct for how language meanders, and the lacunae it circles around.”

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