Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. That can be tuned: a tunable wind instrument; a tunable radio.
- adj. Archaic Tuneful.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being put in tune, or made harmonious.
- Harmonious; musical; tuneful.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of being tuned, or made harmonious; hence, harmonious; musical; tuneful.
Etymologies
- From tune + -able. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But bending light so that it passes round a region of space and emerges travelling along the same line as it was initially is a difficult trick, requiring an invisibility cloak made from materials with a 'tunable' refractive index.”
“Also, some claim that LASIK is actually a bit more "tunable".”
“Fontecchio aims to make a device that is both lightweight and instantly "tunable" for different light signatures”
“Their description of a new "tunable" delivery system appears in the current issue of”
“Its products include things such as tunable laser transmitters and pump laser chips.”
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“One of Sun's perceived strengths was how "tunable" the systems were.”
“tunable' searching are helpful, probably essential.”
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“There are new, tunable, sophisticated hearing devices that some people claim work wonders for hearing things in Spanish.”
“It carries a “tunable laser spectrometer” that bounces received laser light some fifty times between two mirrors before it measures how the light is absorbed for gases like methane.”
“The regime's self-imposed isolation is so draconian that even owning a tunable radio set is a crime.”
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