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Tunable

Tunable \Tun"a*ble\, a. Capable of being tuned, or made harmonious; hence, harmonious; musical; tuneful. -- Tun"a*ble*ness, n. -- Tun"a*bly, adv.

And tunable as sylvan pipe or song.
--Milton.

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tunable

a. 1 (context now rare English) harmonious, melodic, tuneful. (from 16th c.) 2 Able to be tuned. (from 18th c.)

Usage examples of "tunable".

Traditional optics are long since obsolete – tunable matter can slow photons to a stop, teleport them here to there, play ping-pong with spin and polarization – and besides, the dumb matter in the walls and floor has been replaced by low-power computronium, heat sinks dangling far below the floor of the lily-pad habitat to dispose of the scanty waste photons from reversible computation.

Every computer had a digitally tunable LED, a light-emitting diode, that transmitted on low-noise channels.