Crossword clues for fine-tune
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fine-tune \fine-tune\ v. t. to adjust carefully and precisely so as to achieve optimum performance or efficiency; as, The mechanic fine-tuned the engine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. To make small adjustments to something until optimization is achieved vb. To make small adjustments to something until optimization is achieved
WordNet
v. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing" [syn: polish, refine, down]
adjust finely; "fine-tune the engine" [syn: tweak]
make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder" [syn: calibrate, graduate]
Usage examples of "fine-tune".
Peter was able to perform routine tasks, she fine-tuned his kinesis with food-preparation exercises.
He had to listen to his heart hum, like the fine-tuned machine it was, which then reminded him that most of the rest of his body needed a lube job and an oil change every fifteen thousand kilometers.
The rats had borne a few, early on, before the pseudogene structure was fine-tuned.
Nuclei in the detectors were excited into unstable high-energy states, then kept there by fine-tuned gamma-ray lasers picking off lower-energy eigenstates faster than they could creep into existence and attract a transition.
But, beyond that, the Hets have done some direct genetic tinkering recently, fine-tuning existing dinosaurs to be better suited for war.
Erard, fine-tuning some of the strings, touching up areas on the soundboard that had not been covered with enough resin.
Kelsey designed this experiment, she anticipated that we might want to monitor performance at various points in the process for troubleshooting and fine-tuning.
The Racers run smoothly, with a fine-tuned stride like a Wankel rotary engine.
Racers run smoothly, with a fine-tuned stride like a Wankel rotary engine.
Meanwhile, on the ground, Ortega and Cummins knelt with the test instruments, ready to calibrate and fine-tune the antenna.
We would, of course, continue to fine-tune the ways to implement these freedoms, and help ensure their global equity.
But Hiam had not been able to fine-tune the peptides, and the immune response was supposed to be low-level.
Vicky was in the forefront of any action, passing tools to Jake and offering general encouragement, as he worked at fine-tuning the cars and making last minute preparations for the desert crossing or the two of them sat with Gregorius while amidst great hilarity he gave them basic lessons in the Amharic language.
He looks at the baffling, tiny-printed instructions on the back plate of his radiophone, works through the fine-tuned wavelengths for the other groups in his bootstrapped organization.
Paul-or the flesh-and-blood man whose memories he'd inherited-had traced the history of Copies back to the turn of the century, when researchers had begun to fine-tune the generic computer models used for surgical training and pharmacology, transforming them into customized versions able to predict the needs and problems of individual patients.