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.