tunable

American  

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

adjective

1. capable of being tuned.

2. Archaic. harmonious; tuneful; melodious.

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tunable British  

/ ˈtjuːnəbəl /

adjective

1. able to be tuned

2. archaic melodious or tuneful

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Other Word Forms

• tunability noun
• tunableness noun
• tunably adverb
• untunable adjective
• untunableness noun
• untunably adverb

Etymology

Origin of tunable

First recorded in 1490–1500; tune + -able

Example Sentences

"Excitons carry self-oscillating energy, imparted by the initial excitation, which impacts the surrounding electrons in the material at tunable frequencies. Because the excitons are created from the electrons of the material itself, they couple much more strongly with the material than light. And crucially, it takes significantly less light to create a population of excitons dense enough to serve as an effective periodic drive for hybridization - which is what we have now observed," explains co-author Professor Gianluca Stefanucci of the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

From Science Daily

"This experiment provides a precise and highly tunable way for exploring how quantum systems can resist the pull of chaos," says Guo.

From Science Daily

In addition, by using tunable lasers, the detector can be adjusted to respond to one specific frequency within such a field, across a range that extends up to terahertz waves.

From Science Daily

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

"At low temperature, not only is strontium titanate the most electrically tunable optical material we know of, but it's also the most piezoelectrically tunable material," said Christopher Anderson, co-first author and now a faculty member at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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