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tuning
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tuning \Tun"ing\, a. & n. from Tune, v.
Tuning fork (Mus.), a steel instrument consisting of two prongs and a handle, which, being struck, gives a certain fixed tone. It is used for tuning instruments, or for ascertaining the pitch of tunes.
Tune \Tune\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tuned; p. pr. & vb. n. Tuning.]
To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin. `` Tune your harps.''
--Dryden.-
To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
For now to sorrow must I tune my song.
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To sing with melody or harmony.
Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
--Milton. To put into a proper state or disposition.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "action of putting in tune," verbal noun from tune (v.). Of motors, from 1863. Tuning fork attested from 1776, supposedly invented by John Shore (d.1753), royal trumpeter.\n\n[Shore] was a man of humour and pleasantry, and was the original inventor of the tuning-fork, an instrument which he constantly carried about him, and used to tune his lute by, and which whenever he produced it gave occasion to a pun. At a concert he would say, "I have not about me a pitch-pipe, but I have what will do as well to tune by, a pitch-fork."
[Sir John Hawkins, "A General History of the Science and Practice of Music," London, 1776]
Wiktionary
n. 1 action of the verb ''to tune''. 2 The calibration of a musical instrument to a standard pitch. 3 (context engineering English) The adjustment of a system or circuit to secure optimum performance. vb. (present participle of tune English)
WordNet
n. (music) calibrating something (an instrument or electronic circuit) to a standard frequency
Wikipedia
Tuning can refer to:
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Musical tuning, musical systems of tuning, and the act of tuning an instrument or voice
- Guitar tunings
- Piano tuning, adjusting the pitch of pianos using a tuning fork or a frequency counter
- Radio tuning
- The process of tuning a tuned filter
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Performance tuning - the optimization of systems, especially computer systems, may include:
- Computer hardware tuning
- Database tuning
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Car tuning, an industry and hobby involving modifying automobile engines to improve their performance
- Engine tuning, the adjustment, modification, or design of internal combustion engines to yield more performance
- Neuronal tuning, the property of brain cells to selectively represent a particular kind of sensory, motor or cognitive information
- Self-tuning
- "Tuning", a song by Avail from their 1994 album Dixie
- Tuning, a psychokinetic ability in the 1998 film Dark City
Usage examples of "tuning".
As the atmosphere cycled out, Papa described the repair procedure involving the replacement of a piece of molding, adjustment of a Fabry-Perot tuning etalon, and a system diagnostic to confirm the fix.
The twelve-stringed gittern was a lovely instrument, but tuning it after travel was a true test of patience.
Then she stood and took the lutar from its case, quickly checking the tuning.
Mattheson, who wrote in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when the lute was still cultivated, said that a lutist of eighty years must have spent nearly sixty in tuning his instrument.
At the arch tip of her mihrab, where the tiny tuning key should have been, there was no slightest protrusion.
It had been the great star-faring guilds, the Leading Star, the Adventurine, and later the Cor Tauri and Num Sessa, who had developed the modern harmonia with their multiple, multi-throated pipes, and the flexible tuning systems that let a ship go directly from the lifting sequence, the harmony that countered the music of the planetary core, to the music that would take them to the edge of the systemic envelope and finally beyond the twelfth of heaven.
Somewhere in the distance he could hear the skald tuning up his instrument, and his apprentices beating out basic rhythms on the drums with which they would accompany him.
Didymus, and not Ptolemy, who proposed the tuning of the tetrachord which is now accepted as correct.
As she sampled them, Cressy saw that a group of bouzouki players had arrived and were tuning their in struments.
An example of the value of tuning is afforded by the manner in which press reports are sent from the great Marconi station at Poldhu.
The Moties kept fiddling with the insides of their instruments, tuning them, or sometimes handing them to a Brown with a flurry of bird whistles.
The back alleys in my head knew that, which was why I had Strome tuning the car radio to comedies.
The house where Juan Martinez was hiding out was a simple, unass tuning white frame home that sat in the mid-die of an older neighborhood that was showing the signs of age.
It had been the great star-faring guilds, the Leading Star, the Adventurine, and later the Cor Tauri and Num Sessa, who had developed the modern harmonia with their multiple, multi-throated pipes, and the flexible tuning systems that let a ship go directly from the lifting sequence, the harmony that countered the music of the planetary core, to the music that would take them to the edge of the systemic envelope and finally beyond the twelfth of heaven.
Losses would be made up as needed by the mechanisms of the Gates and Anchors, but once the temperatures stabilized in the life zone and the shield was in place, this was a matter of minor fine tuning, not a constant battle.