tunable

adjective

tun·​able ˈtü-nə-bəl 

ˈtyü-

1

: capable of being tuned

tunable lasers

2

archaic

a

: tuneful

b

: sounding in tune : concordant

tunability

ˌtü-nə-ˈbi-lə-tē 

ˌtyü-

noun

tunableness

ˈtü-nə-bəl-nəs 

ˈtyü-

noun

tunably

ˈtü-nə-blē 

ˈtyü-

adverb

Examples of tunable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

During their deployment, North Korean soldiers are also likely to have some access to the Internet and tunable radios (both media are banned in North Korea), so they might be exposed to uncensored information about the world, especially from South Korea. —Andrei Lankov, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2024

Toys can be reconfigured to suit children of varying abilities; Teslas receive software upgrades that regularly improve their performance; tunable eyeglass lenses can adjust for changes in vision. —Vijay Govindarajan, tojin T. Eapen, daniel J. Finkenstadt, Harvard Business Review, 1 Nov. 2024

This property could be useful in developing tunable vibration-damping systems, says Robert Shepherd, who builds advanced robots at Cornell University. —Simon Makin, Scientific American, 19 June 2024

By November 2023, there was word that Amazon was investing millions in training an AI model, codenamed Olympus, that would have 2 trillion parameters—or tunable variables. —Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1500, in the meaning defined at sense 2