PITCH CONTOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pitch contour mean? 

• PITCH CONTOUR (noun)
  The noun PITCH CONTOUR has 1 sense:

1. rise and fall of the voice pitch

  Familiarity information: PITCH CONTOUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PITCH CONTOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rise and fall of the voice pitch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

intonation; modulation; pitch contour

Hypernyms ("pitch contour" is a kind of...):

inflection; prosody (the patterns of stress and intonation in a language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pitch contour"):

intonation pattern (intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements)

drone; droning; monotone (an unchanging intonation)

singsong (a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation)