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tunable

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

The sun had risen fairly, but the hour was still too early for the sweet peaceful music of the church-going bells to have made their echoes tunable through the rich valley.

From Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago by Herbert, Henry William