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tunable

American  
[too-nuh-buhl, tyoo-] / ˈtu nə bəl, ˈtju- /

adjective

  1. capable of being tuned.

  2. Archaic. harmonious; tuneful; melodious.


tunable British  
/ ˈtjuːnəbəl /

adjective

  1. able to be tuned

  2. archaic melodious or tuneful

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of tunable

First recorded in 1490–1500; tune + -able


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The chip includes 120 qubits, which are the units of information used by quantum computers, with 218 tunable couplers, or the components that link the qubits to enable their interactions.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2025

Others had done similar things, Rybka notes, but earlier efforts made the higher mode resonator ring strongly at one frequency or made it tunable, not both.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 20, 2024

Purdue University engineers have developed a patent-pending method to synthesize high-quality, layered perovskite nanowires with large aspect ratios and tunable organic-inorganic chemical compositions.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024

A viable approach for fabricating well-defined tunable nanotubes is bottom-up fabrication of non-covalent nanotubes, which sometimes result in crystalline-form nanotubes.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024

But I heard a very sweet and tunable voice speak, and the voice asked, "When the air is so brisk with kisses, is there never a kiss for me?"

From The God of Love by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

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