How to Use tunable in a Sentence

tunable

adjective
  • The car was equipped with a tunable rear wing and aluminum vanes along the side of the car’s nose.
    OregonLive.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Trigger weight and reach are tunable, and the comb is fully adjustable.
    Field & Stream, 15 May 2020
  • While easy to adjust, the tunable lens can focus on only one plane of an image at a time.
    Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2016
  • The recent launch of Radix 2.8 is the first of several low-loss, tunable dielectric resins.
    Michael Molitch-Hou, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The highly tunable rear shock absorbs impact for a smoother ride while keeping the tire in contact with the ground for greater control.
    Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2023
  • State-of-the-art audio, visual and lighting systems will be installed, along with a tunable acoustic canopy above the stage.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Stopping power comes via six-piston monoblock aluminum calipers and carbon brake discs and pads, with brake bias also tunable by the driver.
    Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2022
  • But in order to hide the planet in all wavelengths of light — rather then just the visible spectrum — earthlings would need to employ an array of tunable 250-megawatt lasers.
    Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2016
  • And if those antennae were tunable, the cloak could adapt to conceal a constantly moving object.
    William Herkewitz, Seventeen, 21 Sep. 2015
  • And a two-position, carbon-fiber anti-roll bar up front with a three-way iron bar in back and adjustable camber at both axles and tunable coil-over suspension.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 14 July 2021
  • This model offers the versatility of a dual-sided chestpiece, with a tunable bell on one side and an open bell on the other.
    Lindsay Modglin, Verywell Health, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The reconstruction of the channel state is done by a tunable RF propagation model.
    Karl Freund, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • Set any mood with Wyze Bulb’s tunable white color temperature.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The tunable laser spectrometer aboad the rover found the largest amount of methane ever measured during mession — about 21 parts per billion units per volume.
    Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2019
  • The initial position of the shuttle relative to the window is also a tunable element.
    K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Because the hardest part of underwater microscopy is focusing, the scientists built an electrically tunable lens that works much like the lens in your eye.
    Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2016
  • Each cell consists of metallic and dielectric layers along with one or more switches or other tunable components.
    IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2022
  • SafeMode brings tunable snapshot retention to protect volumes, pods, protection groups, and files.
    Steve McDowell, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Before tunable quantum systems, there was no easy way to test quantum gravity theory.
    Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
  • Similar to how Philips set out to make tunable white bulbs and ended up with full-spectrum color-​changing ones, another crucial design decision within Hue, was sort of a happy accident.
    Brent Rose, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2021
  • Detachable ear pads, an easy-to-use size adjustment dial, and tunable vent covers add all-season, all-weather adaptability.
    Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Beyond an improved ride experience, rider research showed a tunable system could extend battery life and increase traction by not over-torquing the motor on slippery climbs.
    Trevor Raab, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Perhaps the painter, writer and composer are born with, or have acquired, more refined mental radio receivers, more precisely tunable to those elusive frequencies.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Physicists must employ a variety of tunable toy models to perform those calculations.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2015
  • Second, the combined neural network uses a new architecture that allows for many more layers of tunable artificial neurons than those in the first AlphaGo.
    Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Further out, Clark said similar technology might be used to create a tunable multiband transmitter.
    Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Flight Attendant constantly gives you the ideal pedaling or descending platform based on a complex and tunable algorithm.
    Rob Reed, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Each of its mirrors is individually tunable from afar, so any errors in focus will not necessitate a trip to space to install a physical corrective lens, like Hubble needed.
    Sarah Lewin, NBC News, 9 May 2017
  • The sounds were created with audio equipment, including oscillators, that created tunable sound waves.
    New York Times, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Vegetables are being grown in indoor farms, ranging in size from a shipping container to a massive warehouse, thanks to precise nutrient formulas, tunable lighting, and microclimates.
    Deborah Wince-Smith, Forbes, 19 May 2022

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