Let's pick up the pace of work and meet the deadline.
Technical term for the distance between evenly spaced objects, such as gear teeth, screw threads, or perforations.
The pitch of this gear is 2 millimeters.
Refers to the perceived frequency of a sound. Used in music, acoustics, and linguistics.
This instrument is a little flat in pitch.
In baseball, refers to the act of throwing the ball to the batter, or a particular throw.
See also: ピッチング
His pitches are very fast today.
stroke rate (rowing)
In rowing, the number of strokes per minute.
It's important to maintain a steady stroke rate during the race.
pitch (climbing); section between rest stops
In mountaineering and rock climbing, a section of a climb between two belay points.
The next pitch is a rocky section, so please be careful.
A thick, black, sticky substance obtained from distilling petroleum, coal tar, etc.
Pitch is sometimes used for paving roads.
In sports such as soccer and rugby, the playing field.
The players lined up on the pitch.
PHS (personal handy-phone system)
Colloquial abbreviation for PHS, a mobile phone system once popular in Japan. Now largely obsolete.
See also: ＰＨＳ
Back then, people used mobile phones called PHS.
Many people's voice pitch rises when they get nervous.
I measured the pitch of the screw before choosing the part.
This project is progressing at a fast pace.
I got tired, so I slowed the pace down a bit.
速度 is the formal, measurable term for speed (e.g. of a vehicle), while ピッチ more often describes the rate or tempo of repeated actions or work.
Borrowed from English 'pitch', with senses covering speed, spacing, sound frequency, sports, and technical residues.
pitch gauge
pitch pipe