What is "retune"

Usage examples of "retune".

In blank, dusty darkness, the master at arms drew his blood, cut him day after day, until he learned to retune his perceptions and maintain that heightened state of awareness by ingrained reflex.

He could retune other crucial notes one at a time as they came up while he was learning to talk Cygnan.

But because the brain is such a finely equilibrated and dynamic system, with great capacities for self-adjustment and control, the effect of disrupting its biochemistry by flooding it, via a pill, with some drug which affects protein synthesis, or particular neurotransmitters or neuromodulators, is more likely to be the equivalent of trying to retune a radio or reprogram a computer by jamming a screwdriver into its circuit boards.

Apparently some enemy had crept in during the night and screwed every one of the carburetor adjustments, causing them all to need retuning.

I'm glad the uneven drive thrust has registered on your monitors, so get that shuttle decoked and retuned.

I'm glad the uneven drive thrust has registered on your monitors, so get that shuttle decoked and retuned.

Anne Reynolt was due for such a massive cerebral accident the next time she retuned herself.

Farrell retuned the lute and struck into the Le Roy galliard that was her current favorite.

However, the mechanism will need retuning at regular intervals, as natural radioactive decay will alter compositions unpredictably.

I am also vitally concerned in a recruit who has made a Milekey transition, retunes crystal well enough that Trag cannot fault her, who drives a sled so cleverly that the flight officer has given her patterns he wouldn't dare fly, and a person who had the wit to try to out smart as old a hand at claim-hiding as Keborgen.

They are now unflawed crystal, having been retuned, but not of the size, colour or warrantable stability of pitch to be offered for commercial sale.