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absolute pitch
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absolute pitch
n.
1. The precise pitch of an isolated tone, as established by its rate of vibration measured on a standard scale.
2. Music The ability to identify any pitch heard or produce any pitch referred to by name. Also called perfect pitch.

absolute pitch
n
1. (Music, other) Also called (not in technical usage) perfect pitch the ability to identify exactly the pitch of a note without comparing it to another
2. (Music, other) (Physics / General Physics) the exact pitch of a note determined by its number of vibrations per second
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Noun1.absolute pitch - the ability to identify the pitch of a toneabsolute pitch - the ability to identify the pitch of a tone
audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing, hearing - the ability to hear; the auditory faculty; "his hearing was impaired"


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Jane Gitschier, professor of medicine whose lab at the University of California at San Francisco is conducting the perfect-pitch study jointly with Freimer's at UCLA.
 
 
 
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