2. Adjective. Of an instrument or device that has undergone detuning. ¹
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Definition of Detuned
1. detune [v] - See also: detune
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detuned
Literary usage of Detuned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Litigation and Legislation Respecting Presbyterian by Thomas Smith James (1867)
"... and the appellants, two ministers, wer» •- detuned in the costs, as to which
the heterodox pa.rtv ..."
2. The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine by John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (1807)
"... the men detuned to be the conquerors and go» vernors of the world ? ...
which are detuned to pafs their life in.a continual navigation. ..."
3. Radio Engineering Principles by Henri Lauer, Harry Leonard Brown (1919)
"detuned wave lengths need be only a few meters. ... locally generated waves for
heterodyne, to the same frequency as the =- „ incoming detuned wave so Fio. ..."
4. Precision Spectroscopy, Diode Lasers, and Optical Frequency Measuredited by Leo Hollberg edited by Leo Hollberg (2000)
"If the probe field is detuned from atomic resonance, the gain coefficient decreases
rapidly, and vanishes when ' Ay bc - B(yab + ybc) ' Let us turn now to ..."
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