detune
Meaning of detune
verb
- cause (a musical instrument) to become out of tune.
I'm off to detune my guitar and annoy the neighbours
detuned guitars that sound like they were strung with barbed wire
- reduce the performance or efficiency of (a motor vehicle or engine) by adjustment.
we've detuned the engines a bit for reliability
a detuned version of a professional rally racer
- change the frequency of (an oscillatory system such as a laser) away from a state of resonance.
diode lasers can be detuned faster than standard lasers
Information about detune
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of detune is: detunes.
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Hyphenation of detune
de-tune
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- detune is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with detune
tune, atune, petune, retune, contune, entune, intune, untune, Neptune, neptune, Fortune, befortune, disfortune, enfortune, fortune, importune, infortune, inopportune, malfortune, misfortune, opportune, prefortune, reimportune, undertune, unfortune, unopportune, distune, mistune, attune, disattune, preattune
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