TUNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tuning mean? 

• TUNING (noun)
  The noun TUNING has 1 sense:

1. (music) calibrating something (an instrument or electronic circuit) to a standard frequency

  Familiarity information: TUNING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUNING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(music) calibrating something (an instrument or electronic circuit) to a standard frequency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("tuning" is a kind of...):

calibration; standardisation; standardization (the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Derivation:

tune (adjust the pitches of (musical instruments))

tune (adjust for (better) functioning)

 Context examples 

Decreasing levels of Bmp7 along the length of the basilar papilla map result in a gradual tuning to higher frequencies.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)

This self-tuning balance of activity, common in other body systems, is called homeostasis.

(Self-tuning neurons promote resilience to stress, depression, NIH)

Additional experiments showed that Xi may regulate movement by fine-tuning levels of certain carbohydrates, such as trehalose, which is the main sugar found in flies and is similar to mammalian glucose.

(Gut bacteria may control movement, National Institutes of Health)

They could not feel vibrations from a buzzing tuning fork as well as the control subjects could.

(“Sixth sense” may be more than just a feeling, NIH)

The amount of drug can be controlled by tuning the strength of the electric field.

(Electronic device implanted in the brain could stop seizures, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Our work shows that the third harmonic generation efficiency in graphene can be increased by over 10 times by tuning an applied electric field, said lead author Giancarlo Soavi, of the Cambridge Graphene Centre.

(Graphene paves the way to faster high-speed communications, University of Cambridge)

"We're structurally tuning that plastic," says Soleymani, an engineering physicist.

(Scientists Create Superbug-Resistant Self-Cleaning Surface, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)