tunable

adjective

tun·​able ˈtü-nə-bəl How to pronounce tunable (audio)
ˈtyü-
1
: capable of being tuned
tunable lasers
2
archaic
a
b
: sounding in tune : concordant
tunability noun
tunableness noun
tunably 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 

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1500, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Time Traveler
The first known use of tunable was circa 1500

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“Tunable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tunable. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.

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