Adjustment of pitch, tuning; tunefulness.

Musical inflection of the voice; variation of the quality of one's voice, or of the sound of a musical instrument, with respect to tone, pitch, and…

The action or process of putting an instrument in tune; a system according to which this is done (cf. temperament, n. 10).

Music. = temperament, n. 10. Obsolete. rare.

Music. The adjustment of the intervals of the scale (in the tuning of instruments of fixed intonation, as keyboard instruments), so as to adapt…

The utterance or production (by the voice, or an instrument, etc.) of musical tones: in reference to manner or style, esp. to exactitude of pitch or…

the tuning of intervals to be acoustically pure, having the simplest mathematical ratios; the tuning of a diatonic scale with as many pure intervals…

With up: see to tune up at tune, v. phrasal verbs.

The action, or an act, of tuning up (literal and figurative).