tunable
adjective
tun·able
| \ ˈtü-nə-bəl
, ˈtyü-\
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Definition of tunable
1
: capable of being tuned
tunable lasers
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Other Words from tunable
tunability
\ ˌtü-nə-ˈbi-lə-tē
, ˌtyü- \
noun
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noun
tunableness
\ ˈtü-nə-bəl-nəs
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noun
, ˈtyü- \
noun
tunably
\ ˈtü-nə-blē
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adverb
, ˈtyü- \
adverb
Examples of tunable in a Sentence
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The rover's tunable laser spectrometer, called SAM, which stands for Sample Analysis at Mars, detected the largest amount of methane ever measured during its mission. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "Curiosity rover detects highest levels of methane on Mars," 24 June 2019 The tunable laser spectrometer aboad the rover found the largest amount of methane ever measured during mession — about 21 parts per billion units per volume. — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, "Did a rover on Mars just sniff out life?," 24 June 2019 Because the hardest part of underwater microscopy is focusing, the scientists built an electrically tunable lens that works much like the lens in your eye. — Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, "The Underwater Microscope That Can Survive on the Ocean Floor," 12 Sep. 2016 While easy to adjust, the tunable lens can focus on only one plane of an image at a time. — Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, "The Underwater Microscope That Can Survive on the Ocean Floor," 12 Sep. 2016 He was joined by the Kronos Quartet and Van-Anh Vo, a virtuoso on several Vietnamese instruments: a zither; a tunable single-string instrument; a bamboo xylophone; drums; gongs. — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, "Review: Kronos Quartet Revisits Vietnam Horror in ‘My Lai’," 28 Sep. 2017 The initial position of the shuttle relative to the window is also a tunable element. — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, "Prime Cuts: We Cut Open a Multimatic Spool-Valve Damper to Reveal Its Secrets," 3 Nov. 2017 The car was equipped with a tunable rear wing and aluminum vanes along the side of the car’s nose. — OregonLive.com, "Rolla Vollstedt: Oregon's Indy 500 pioneer dies at age 99," 2 Nov. 2017 Second, the combined neural network uses a new architecture that allows for many more layers of tunable artificial neurons than those in the first AlphaGo. — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, "This computer program can beat humans at Go—with no human instruction," 18 Oct. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tunable.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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