tunable

adjective

tun·​able ˈtü-nə-bəl How to pronounce tunable (audio)
ˈtyü-
1
: capable of being tuned
tunable lasers
2
archaic
a
b
: sounding in tune : concordant
tunability noun
tunableness noun
tunably adverb

Examples of tunable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 The tunable replica circuits operate for a realistic but random amount of time, obscuring the real signal from any eavesdropping attackers. IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2024 Kay and his colleagues thought the structure of squid skin might hold the key to creating dynamic, tunable building facades. Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2023 But initial research into their use in sensors started in the 1970s with the development of tunable dye lasers. Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024 The resulting quantum dots had a good size distribution and were tunable over a broad spectral range, including SWIR. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024 In bilayer graphene, two sheets of carbon atoms stack on top of each other, creating a unique platform with tunable band gaps through the application of an electric field perpendicular to the layers. IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2024 DeepMind had shown that its Chinchilla LLM, with 70 billion parameters (which are tunable variables and used to indicate model size), could beat its Gopher model with 280 billion parameters if Chinchilla was given four times the data. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

circa 1500, in the meaning defined at sense 2

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The first known use of tunable was circa 1500

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“Tunable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tunable. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.

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