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tunable, tuneable, a.|ˈtjuːnəb(ə)l|
[f. tune n. or v. + -able: cf. comfortable.]
1. Tuneful, musical, melodious, harmonious, sweet-sounding. arch.
a. Of music, musical instruments, the singing voice, etc.
c1500Proverbs in Antiq. Rep. (1809) IV. 407 In tunabill tewnys he hathe non experyment. c1525in Herrig Archiv Neu. Spr. (1908) CXX. 423 The songe of hym selff, yet nevyrtheles, Ys trew and tvnabyle, & syng yt as yt ys. c1581Lodge Repl. Gosson's Sch. Abuse (Shaks. Soc.) 20 The tunable voyces of men. 1598Florio, Simphonia,..a tunable singing without iarring. 1658R. Franck North. Mem. (1821) 250 The birds..beat the ambient air with their tunable notes. 1700J. Brome Trav. Eng. etc. ii. (1707) 52 A Chapel..in which there is placed a tunable Organ. 1820H. Matthews Diary of Invalid (ed. 2) 34 Airs not at all tuneable to an English ear. 1890W. Morris in Eng. Illustr. Mag. July 757 The noise though it was great was tuneable.
b. spec. Of a peal of bells: in first 2 quots., well-tuned, in tune.
1510–11Rec. St. Mary at Hill 274 To go and see wheþer Smythes bell wer Tewneabill or nat. 1581in Rep. Hist. MSS Comm., Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 91 Such of the sayd bells as be not tuneable at this present. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 226 A tunable ring of fiue bels vpon the same. 1778G. White Selborne lxxx, The notes of a hunting horn, a tunable ring of bells. 1844Paley Church Restorers 33 The Tower contained a tunable ring of eight new bells.
c. Of speech or the speaking voice, or other sounds.
1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 21 A well tunable sound of the waues reboundeth. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. v. (Arb.) 26 Without any rime or tunable concord in th'end of their verses. 1661H. D. Disc. Liturgies 82 A tunable and distinct pronouncing of the words. 1709Steele & Swift Tatler No. 70 ⁋7 What a secret Force there is in the Accents of a tunable Voice! 1836S. Rogers From Euripides 7 As tuneable as harp of many strings.
d. fig. Harmonious, concordant; pleasant-sounding (quot. 1639); well-strung (quot. 1691).
1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 68 b, A continuall holdyng on and tunable agrement in praysing God. 1639Fuller Holy War v. vii. (1840) 253 This counsel, harsh at first, grew tunable in the ears of the Hospitallers. 1691Norris Pract. Disc. 327 He that is blessed with the strongest and most tunable Constitution. 1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Quot. & Orig. Wks. (Bohn) III. 214 It [the Bible] has been played upon by the devotion of thousands of years until every word and particle is..tunable.
†e. with to: In tune with, accordant to (lit. and fig.). Obs.
1584Lodge Hist. Forbonius & Prisc. (Shaks. Soc.) 85 Making his lute tunable to the straine of his voice. 1688W. Bates Harm. Div. Attrib. v. (ed. 3) 87 His Heart might be made tunable to the Hearts of the afflicted.
2. Capable of being tuned; spec. capable of having its operating frequency and wavelength varied.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Tunable, that may be tuned, or put in Tune; agreeable to the Rules of Musick. 1828in Webster. [Hence in later Dicts.] 1934E. Little Mod. Rhythmic Drumming (rev. ed.) 26 No outfit is complete without at least one tomtom. The ‘tuneable’ models are the best, because any dampness in the atmosphere can be counteracted by the use of the tensioning handles. 1943C. L. Boltz Basic Radio xii. 195 It is seen that the aerial is not tunable. 1957Proc. IRE XLV. 1467/2 The system [sc. for a maser] is ‘tunable’; i.e., the useful frequency can be adjusted. 1969R. B. Fuller Operating Man. Spaceship Earth v. 67 The macrocosmic irrelevancies are all the events too large and too infrequent to be synchronizably tuneable in any possible way with our consideration. 1969Sci. Jrnl. Apr. 53/3 Lasers capable of producing megawatts of power and tunable right through the visible spectrum. 1971Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 22 Oct. 57 (Advt.), The VHF radio has pushbutton programme selection and each programme is separately tunable. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Jan. 106/2 In conjuction with a tunable x-ray monochromator, anomalous scattering experiments can be performed close to absorption edges. |