0 past participle, past simple of fine-tune
1 to make very small changes to something in order to make it work as well as possible:
This stands in stark contrast to the intricate and fine-tuned experience of expert performers of established musical instruments.
This correlation becomes exploited when the corresponding mechanism is established by evolutionary selection and fine-tuned by learning.
Cropping systems are generally fine-tuned and improved through changes that have small effects which can often be verified only through research.
It might easily be corrected by incorporating lazy and faithfulness constraints that are articulatorily more fine-tuned and less dependent on abstract features and classes.
This makes the system fine-tuned to the intended applications but also less transparent.
Studies with more fine-tuned measures of self-regulation may be needed to clarify these patterns.
In addition, the specialized maneuvers in the latter case utilize a sequence of fine-tuned actions for high-impact intermittent push.
If mutual-determination is a reasonable model, we should expect to find perceptual mechanisms that are fine-tuned to process frequently occurring environmental sounds.
