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    In aerodynamics, pitch-up is an uncommanded nose-upwards rotation of an aircraft. It is an undesirable characteristic that has been observed mostly in...
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  • Look up pitch, pitched, pitches, or pitching in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pitch may refer to: Pitch (music), the perceived frequency of sound including...
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  • In the game of cricket, the cricket pitch consists of the central strip of the cricket field between the wickets. It is 22 yd (20.12 m) long (1 chain)...
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  • affecting its pitch. Pitch scaling is the opposite: the process of changing the pitch without affecting the speed. Pitch shift is pitch scaling implemented...
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    Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible...
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  • violence. The refrain, which consists only of the line "Change my pitch up/Smack my bitch up", was sampled from the song "Give the Drummer Some" by the Ultramagnetic...
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    Pitch is a viscoelastic polymer which can be natural or manufactured, derived from petroleum, coal tar, or plants. Pitch produced from petroleum may be...
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    An elevator pitch, elevator speech, lift speech, or elevator statement is a short description of an idea, product, or company that explains the concept...
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  • Pitch Perfect is a 2012 American musical comedy film directed by Jason Moore and written by Kay Cannon. It features an ensemble cast, including Anna Kendrick...
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    Pitch shifting is a sound recording technique in which the original pitch of a sound is raised or lowered. Effects units that raise or lower pitch by a...
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    A football pitch (also known as a soccer field in the United States) is the playing surface for the game of association football. Its dimensions and markings...
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    that make the helicopter move in a desired way. To tilt forward and back (pitch) or sideways (roll) requires that the controls alter the angle of attack...
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  • Absolute pitch (AP), often called perfect pitch, is the ability to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone....
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    In Britain the game is also known as pap, penny up or penny up the wall and it is referred to as pitch-and-toss in Rudyard Kipling's poem If—. In Scotland...
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    A pitch drop experiment is a long-term experiment which measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years. "Pitch" is the name for any of a number...
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    aircraft gathered a great deal of data about pitch-up and the coupling of lateral (yaw) and longitudinal (pitch) motions; wing and tail loads, lift, drag...
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    three dimensions: yaw, nose left or right about an axis running up and down; pitch, nose up or down about an axis running from wing to wing; and roll, rotation...
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    the world have started using a pitch clock to speed up the pace of play. Major League Baseball (MLB) began using a pitch clock in the 2023 season following...
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    processing to change the playback speed or pitch. A typical DJ deck allows the pitch to be increased or reduced by up to 8%, which is achieved by increasing...
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    disengaged, and the pilots then attempted a manual go-around. The jet slowed, pitched up by 40°, rose 1,000 feet (300 m), stalled, and crashed into a residential...
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  • to create his chipmunk characters. He again used the same technique to pitch up the voice to create the chipmunks. The technique was imitated by Sheb Wooley's...
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  • Look up pitch-black in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pitch Black may refer to: Pitch Black (film), a 2000 science fiction movie Pitch Black, the boogeyman...
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    aircraft to pitch up or down. A fixed-wing aircraft increases or decreases the lift generated by the wings when it pitches nose up or down by increasing...
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    single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm, while more figuratively, the term can include other musical...
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  • In music, a pitch class (p.c. or pc) is a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart; for example, the pitch class C consists of the...
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    had believed, and the nose-up pitch inputs to the flight controls made by the pilots were countered by the autopilot's pitch trim function, which made...
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    before rotation did not occur and was not the cause of the initial extreme pitch up at rotation." Cargo compression or shifting may have occurred later. Ground...
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    level flight, the pilot pitches the aircraft up about 10 to 30 degrees above the horizon, into a brief climb. The purpose of pitch-up is twofold. This causes...
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    correction of pitch-up during a wingtip stall. An all-moving canard capable of a significant nose-down deflection can be used to counteract the pitch-up due to...
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    PitchCom is a wireless communication system used in baseball that lets a player request pitches without using visible signals. Major League Baseball (MLB)...
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