tunable
Americanadjective
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able to be tuned
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archaic melodious or tuneful
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“Having the tunable couplers fixed should ease the path to scaling to larger machines going forward,” McPeake wrote, adding, “this is a key component of Rigetti’s modular quantum compute architecture.”
From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026
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
This configuration makes the electronic characteristics of the electrides both durable and tunable.
From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 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
If tunable, perhaps a song he sings Of "Auld lang syne," or some more serious things, Which tends to make his work more easy seem, Or drive away some foolish, waking dream.
From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas
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