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Pitch Perfect (soundtrack)
Pitch Perfect (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the 2012 Island/Universal a cappella album from the film, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, topping the UK soundtrack chart, and launching Anna Kendrick's "Cups."
Pitch Perfect 2
Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) is a musical comedy sequel directed by Elizabeth Banks, her directorial debut, written by Kay Cannon. The Barden Bellas face Das Sound Machine in Copenhagen; it grossed $287.2M worldwide.
Pitch Perfect 3
Pitch Perfect 3 is a 2017 American musical comedy film directed by Trish Sie, the third and final installment of the Pitch Perfect series, starring Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson.
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin is a 2022 Peacock musical comedy spin-off of the Pitch Perfect films, starring Adam Devine as Bumper Allen, who moves to Berlin after a song becomes a hit; six episodes, cancelled in 2023.
Pitched battle
Pitched battle (set-piece battle, French bataille rangée): a planned battle fought on preselected ground with forces arranged in advance, both sides committed by choice; first recorded 1600–10; also any fierce large-scale fight.
Pitcher
Pitcher: the baseball defensive player who delivers pitches to the batter. Covers delivery mechanics, 14 Statcast pitch types, starter/reliever/opener roles, pitch-timer rules, and UCL injury research, distinguishing baseball from softball's windmill pitch.
Pitcher plant
Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants with pitfall-trap leaves that digest prey in fluid; unrelated lineages Nepenthes, Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, Heliamphora, and Cephalotus evolved them independently in nutrient-poor wetlands.
Pitchfork (website)
Pitchfork is an American music criticism website founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber, known for daily album reviews scored 0.0 to 10.0 on a 101-point scale, Best New Music designations, and Pitchfork Music Festival; sold to Condé Nast in 2015 and folded under GQ in January 2024.
Piteşti
Pitești, county seat of Argeș County, Romania, on the Argeș river; first documented 20 May 1388, medieval trade hub, 160,262 domiciled residents in 2026, ranked 17th in City Index 2024.
Pitfall (おとし穴)
Pitfall (おとし穴, Otoshiana) is Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1962 debut feature, scripted by Kobo Abe from his TV drama Purgatory; the first Japanese film distributed by ATG, a black-and-white ghost-story mystery set in Kyushu's coal fields.
Pitfall trap
A pitfall trap is a container sunk flush with the soil to passively catch ground-active arthropods, the most used arthropod collection method in recent decades.
Pitfall!
Pitfall! (Pitfall Harry) is a 1982 Activision platform game by David Crane for the Atari 2600; 32 treasures, 20-minute limit, over 4 million sold, 64 weeks atop Billboard, re-released on cartridge in 2026.
Pith
Pith is the central ground tissue, usually parenchyma, inside the vascular cylinder of stems and roots; it can form aerenchymatous cavities, responds to shade and submergence, and was named by Theophrastus.
Pith helmet
The pith helmet, also known as the sola topi or sun helmet, is a lightweight sun helmet with a rounded dome and wide brim, developed in the 19th century.
Pithamagan (பித்தமகன்)
Pithamagan (பிதாமகன்) is Bala's 2003 Tamil drama starring Vikram as graveyard caretaker Chithan and Suriya as conman Sakthi, based on Jayakanthan's Nandhavanathil Oru Aandi; it won Vikram the National Film Award for Best Actor.
Pithana
Pithana, also written Pitḫana, was an early 18th-century BC king of the Anatolian city of Kuššara who captured Kaneš and was the father of Anitta.
Pithecellobium
Pithecellobium (blackbead) is a genus of spiny mimosoid legume trees and shrubs in Fabaceae, tribe Ingeae, native from Mexico to Brazil and Florida to the Caribbean, with about 21 accepted species including the Madras thorn, Pithecellobium dulce.
Pithecellobium dulce
Pithecellobium dulce, Manila tamarind, Madras thorn, guamúchil, kamachile: a spiny Fabaceae tree native from Mexico to Peru, grown for its sweet edible seed aril, fodder, and timber, and invasive in Hawaii, Florida, and India.
Pithecia
Pithecia, the saki monkeys, is a genus of New World monkeys in subfamily Pitheciinae with Chiropotes and Cacajao. About 16 species after Marsh's 2014 revision; Amazonian seed predators with procumbent incisors and strong sexual dichromatism.
Pitheciidae
Pitheciidae is a New World monkey family of titi monkeys, sakis, and uakaris, living in South American rainforests and adapted to open hard fruits for seeds.
Pithiviers-le-Vieil
Pithiviers-le-Vieil, a Loiret commune (INSEE 45253) southwest of Pithiviers, France, known for its Gallo-Roman baths, eight fanum temples, and 1972 merger with Bouzonville-en-Beauce.
Pithom Stela
The Pithom Stela, or Stela of Pithom, is a hieroglyphic inscription of Ptolemy II on granite, found at Tell el-Maskhuta in 1883 and recording his works in the Wadi Tumilat.
Pithos (πίθος)
Pithos (πίθος, plural pithoi; Latin dolium) is the Greek name for a large ceramic storage jar used from the Neolithic to the present for grain, oil, and wine, for jar burials, and traded across the Mediterranean, distinct from the smaller transport amphora.
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (Hôpital Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière), largest hospital group in France, an AP-HP public teaching hospital in Paris's 13th arrondissement with 90 buildings on 33 hectares, 77 services, 26 rare-disease reference centers, and the ICAN and A-ICM institutes.
Pitinum
Pitinum: name of several ancient central Italian settlements, chiefly Pitinum Pisaurense (Πίτινον), a Roman municipium of the tribus Oufentina near Macerata Feltria in Umbria, distinct from Pitinum Mergens and a Vestini center.
Pitirim
Pitirim (Питирим) was the eighth Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', enthroned in July 1672 and serving only about 10 months before his death in 1673.
Pitiscus (lunar crater)
Pitiscus is a 79.85 km-wide impact crater at 50.61 S, 30.57 E in the Moon's southeastern highlands, named for German mathematician Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, approved by the IAU in 1935, lying just north of Hommel.
Pitjantjatjara dialect
Pitjantjatjara is a major dialect of the Western Desert Language (Wati subgroup, Pama-Nyungan) of central Australia, spoken by over 3,000 people in the APY Lands; mutually intelligible with Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra, among Australia's strongest Indigenous languages.
Pitjantjatjara oral literature
Pitjantjatjara oral literature is the spoken and performed narrative tradition of the Aṉangu people of Central Australia, centered on inma ceremonial song and stories of the Dreaming.
Pitkern
Pitkern, also called Pitcairn-Norfolk or Norf'k, is an endangered English-based creole with Tahitian and St Kitts Creole input, spoken on Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands since the 1790 Bounty mutineer settlement.