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Definition of Fine-tune

1. Verb. Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing. "Refine one's style of writing"

2. Verb. Adjust finely. "Fine-tune the engine"

3. Verb. Make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring. "Graduate a cylinder"

Definition of Fine-tune

1. Verb. To make small adjustments to something until optimization is achieved ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fine-tune

findspot findspots findy fine fine-drawn fine-grained fine-leaved heath fine-looking fine-structure constant fine-tooth(a)

fine-tooth comb fine-tooth combs fine-toothed fine-toothed(a) fine-toothed comb fine-tune (current term) fine-tuned fine-tuned universe fine-tuned universes fine-tunes

fine-tuning fine art fine arts fine as frog hair fine feathers make fine birds fine leg fine legs fine line fine needle aspiration fine needle biopsy

Literary usage of Fine-tune

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. 50 Ways Farmers Can Protect Their Groundwater by Michael C. Hirschi, F. William Simmons, Doug Peterson, Ed Giles (1998)
"fine-tune your weed-control program to reduce rates Know the situation Reducing herbicide rates requires that you know your soil, weed problem, herbicide, ..."

2. Dictionary of English and French Idioms: Illustrating, by Phrases and by Jean Roemer (1853)
"... hate find n fine tune of it (ironically), j'ai eu du bon temps—.—Dieu sait quel —.—c'est nn beau garçon, bel homme. much firing to-day (of guns, ..."

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