tuning
pronunciation
How to pronounce tuning in British English:
UK ['tju:nɪŋ]
How to pronounce tuning in American English:
US ['tjunɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- (music) calibrating something (an instrument or electronic circuit) to a standard frequency
Word Origin
- tuning (n.)
- 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. [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]
Example
- 1. Tuning your caffeine intake is a good thing to do every few months .
- 2. At present most rehabilitation , and more broadly most educational efforts of any sort , focus on tuning up the analytic network .
- 3. One reason this is hard is that radio telescopes must chop the spectrum into fine portions to study it , like tuning into a signal on a car radio .
- 4. The pain , he said , tuning his guitar , close to tears , was " the big one . It 's the biggest . "
- 5. You may also find the " five elements of health " and " enduring youth " herbal supplements from traditions of tao helpful for tuning up your entire body and reducing the effects of stress .