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tunable

[too-nuh-buhl, tyoo-]

adjective

  1. capable of being tuned.

  2. Archaic.,  harmonious; tuneful; melodious.



tunable

/ 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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tunable1

First recorded in 1490–1500; tune + -able
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Example Sentences

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This configuration makes the electronic characteristics of the electrides both durable and tunable.

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The study, "Electrides with Tunable Electron Delocalization for Applications in Quantum Computing and Catalysis," was also coauthored by graduate students Andrei Evdokimov and Valentina Nesterova.

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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.

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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.

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

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