tunable
Americanadjective
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able to be tuned
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archaic melodious or tuneful
Other Word Forms
- tunability noun
- tunableness noun
- tunably adverb
- untunable adjective
- untunableness noun
- untunably adverb
Etymology
Origin of tunable
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
The discovery also points toward the creation of compact, tunable terahertz light sources powered by optical methods -- an advance that could reshape technologies in high-speed communications, medical imaging, and quantum computing.
From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 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
They were first cast in England, in the reign of Edmund I., and the first tunable set, or peal, for Croyland Abbey, was cast A. D. 960.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
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