noun
General term for work speed, progress rate, or tempo. Common in business and everyday contexts.
仕事のピッチを上げて、締め切りに間に合わせよう。
Let's pick up the pace of work and meet the deadline.
noun
Technical term for the distance between evenly spaced objects, such as gear teeth, screw threads, or perforations.
この歯車のピッチは2ミリです。
The pitch of this gear is 2 millimeters.
noun
Refers to the perceived frequency of a sound. Used in music, acoustics, and linguistics.
この楽器はピッチが少し低い。
This instrument is a little flat in pitch.
noun
In baseball, refers to the act of throwing the ball to the batter, or a particular throw.
See also: ピッチング
彼のピッチは今日はとても速い。
His pitches are very fast today.
noun
stroke rate (rowing)
In rowing, the number of strokes per minute.
レース中はピッチを一定に保つことが重要だ。
It's important to maintain a steady stroke rate during the race.
noun
pitch (climbing); section between rest stops
In mountaineering and rock climbing, a section of a climb between two belay points.
次のピッチは岩場が続くので注意してください。
The next pitch is a rocky section, so please be careful.
noun
A thick, black, sticky substance obtained from distilling petroleum, coal tar, etc.
ピッチは道路の舗装に使われることがある。
Pitch is sometimes used for paving roads.
noun
In sports such as soccer and rugby, the playing field.
選手たちはピッチに整列した。
The players lined up on the pitch.
noun
PHS (personal handy-phone system)
Colloquial abbreviation for PHS, a mobile phone system once popular in Japan. Now largely obsolete.
See also: ＰＨＳ
昔はピッチと呼ばれる携帯電話を使っていた。
Back then, people used mobile phones called PHS.