tunable

adjective

tun·able ˈtü-nə-bəl

ˈtyü-

: capable of being tuned

tunable lasers

archaic

: tuneful

: sounding in tune : concordant

tunability

ˌtü-nə-ˈbi-lə-tē

ˌtyü-

noun

tunableness

ˈtü-nə-bəl-nəs

ˈtyü-

noun

tunably

ˈtü-nə-blē

ˈtyü-

adverb

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Toys can be reconfigured to suit children of varying abilities; Teslas receive software upgrades that regularly improve their performance; tunable eyeglass lenses can adjust for changes in vision. —

Vijay Govindarajan, tojin T. Eapen, daniel J. Finkenstadt, Harvard Business Review, 1 Nov. 2024 This property could be useful in developing tunable vibration-damping systems, says Robert Shepherd, who builds advanced robots at Cornell University. —

Simon Makin, Scientific American, 19 June 2024 By November 2023, there was word that Amazon was investing millions in training an AI model, codenamed Olympus, that would have 2 trillion parameters—or tunable variables. —

Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 June 2024 The tunable replica circuits operate for a realistic but random amount of time, obscuring the real signal from any eavesdropping attackers. —

IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tunable