pitchmeter

English

Alternative forms
  • pitch meter

Etymology

From pitch +‎ -meter.

Noun

pitchmeter (plural pitchmeters)

  1. (nautical, aviation) A device, encompassing a clinometer, used for measuring the pitch of a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft.
    Synonym: pitchometer
  2. (phonetics) A device used for measuring the pitch of sounds or human voice.
    • 1976 August, E. F. James, “The Acquisition of Prosodic Features of Speech Using a Speech Visualizer”, in International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, volume 14, number 3, →DOI, page 227:
      This consisted, in essence, of a tape recorder for playing model utterances, a pitchmeter to extract, in real time, the fundamental frequency (pitch) of the model utterances and that of the student and a computer for comparing the output of the student with that of the model.
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