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2. Verb. (third-person singular of pitch) ¹

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Definition of Pitches

1. pitch [v] - See also: pitch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitches

Literary usage of Pitches

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1914)
"... CORRESPONDING DIAMETRAL AND CIRCULAR pitches No. i table shows the diametral pitches with ... 2 table shows the circular pitches with the corresponding ..."

2. The Theory of Screws: A Study in the Dynamics of a Rigid Body by Robert Stawell Ball (1876)
"The three screws of A are parallel to a triad of conjugate diameters of the pitch quadric, and the sum of the reciprocals of the pitches is proportional to ..."

3. Asphalts and Allied Substances: Their Occurrence, Modes of Production, Uses by Herbert Abraham (1920)
""Distinction between Lignite Pitch and Other pitches," by E. Graefe, Chrm. Zcit., SO, 298, 1906; "Native and Artificial Asphalts," by J. ..."

4. The Examination of Hydrocarbon Oils and of Saponifiable Fats and Waxes by David Holde (1915)
"X. DETECTION OF FOREIGN TARS, pitches AND ASPHALTS IN PETROLEUM pitches (a) Detection of the Fat-pitches. The black residues obtained in the distillation of ..."

5. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"... INCLUDING ASPHALTS, TARS AND pitches HERBERT ABRAHAM, BS of Chemistry, ... asphalts and pitches, many of them may likewise be used for testing asphaltic ..."

6. Railroad Freight Transportation by Leonor Fresnel Loree (1922)
"pitches and Sags.—Frequently bad conditions are inherited from the construction ... Such are pitches and dips or sags in passing from one rate of grade to ..."

7. Railroad Freight Transportation by Leonor Fresnel Loree (1922)
"pitches and Sags.—Frequently bad conditions are inherited from the construction ... Such are pitches and dips or sags in passing from one rate of grade to ..."

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