Usually means: Identifying notes using reference pitches.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. relative pitch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. relative pitch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. relative pitch: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. relative pitch: Dictionary.com
  5. Relative pitch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. relative pitch: Dictionary/thesaurus
  7. relative pitch: Wiktionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (relative pitch)

noun:  (music, uncountable) The ability to identify or create a given note by comparing it with a reference note and discerning the interval between those two notes.
noun:  (music, countable or uncountable) The interval between two notes.

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