How to Use tunable in a Sentence

tunable

adjective
  • The car was equipped with a tunable rear wing and aluminum vanes along the side of the car’s nose.
    OregonLive.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Trigger weight and reach are tunable, and the comb is fully adjustable.
    Field & Stream, 15 May 2020
  • The process is also highly tunable.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 June 2026
  • While easy to adjust, the tunable lens can focus on only one plane of an image at a time.
    Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2016
  • But this taught them that the change in heat conductivity was tunable.
    Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Oct. 2016
  • The highly tunable rear shock absorbs impact for a smoother ride while keeping the tire in contact with the ground for greater control.
    Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2023
  • State-of-the-art audio, visual and lighting systems will be installed, along with a tunable acoustic canopy above the stage.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Each resonator is connected to each other resonator via a tunable coupler.
    IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2025
  • And if those antennae were tunable, the cloak could adapt to conceal a constantly moving object.
    William Herkewitz, Seventeen, 21 Sep. 2015
  • Set any mood with Wyze Bulb’s tunable white color temperature.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The dual-head tunable diaphragm means there’s a side for adults and another for pediatric patients.
    Bestreviews, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Stopping power comes via six-piston monoblock aluminum calipers and carbon brake discs and pads, with brake bias also tunable by the driver.
    Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Kay and his colleagues thought the structure of squid skin might hold the key to creating dynamic, tunable building facades.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Before tunable quantum systems, there was no easy way to test quantum gravity theory.
    Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
  • Each cell consists of metallic and dielectric layers along with one or more switches or other tunable components.
    IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2022
  • This model offers the versatility of a dual-sided chestpiece, with a tunable bell on one side and an open bell on the other.
    Lindsay Modglin, Verywell Health, 1 Mar. 2023
  • And a two-position, carbon-fiber anti-roll bar up front with a three-way iron bar in back and adjustable camber at both axles and tunable coil-over suspension.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 14 July 2021
  • The team says future work will require tunable control systems and more adaptive augmentation methods.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Dec. 2025
  • SafeMode brings tunable snapshot retention to protect volumes, pods, protection groups, and files.
    Steve McDowell, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The initial position of the shuttle relative to the window is also a tunable element.
    K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Physicists must employ a variety of tunable toy models to perform those calculations.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2015
  • In this case, regulation can be more responsive to nuances of context, and the regulatory knobs are tunable rather than being just on/off.
    Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
  • The reconstruction of the channel state is done by a tunable RF propagation model.
    Karl Freund, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • But initial research into their use in sensors started in the 1970s with the development of tunable dye lasers.
    Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Detachable ear pads, an easy-to-use size adjustment dial, and tunable vent covers add all-season, all-weather adaptability.
    Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2022
  • This enabled wafer-scale growth of monolayer tungsten silicon nitride films with tunable doping properties.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The tunable laser spectrometer aboad the rover found the largest amount of methane ever measured during mession — about 21 parts per billion units per volume.
    Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2019
  • Because the hardest part of underwater microscopy is focusing, the scientists built an electrically tunable lens that works much like the lens in your eye.
    Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2016
  • Further out, Clark said similar technology might be used to create a tunable multiband transmitter.
    Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • But in order to hide the planet in all wavelengths of light — rather then just the visible spectrum — earthlings would need to employ an array of tunable 250-megawatt lasers.
    Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2016

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