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auto-tuning

auto-tuning is the present participle and gerund of auto-tune.

Meaning of auto-tune

Verb

auto-tune (third-person singular simple present auto-tunes, present participle auto-tuning, simple past and past participle auto-tuned)

  1. (transitive) To tune (an engine, industrial process, etc.) automatically.
  2. (transitive) To correct the pitch of a vocal or instrumental performance.
    • The singing is sometimes pure and sometimes processed into exaggeratedly AutoTuned “Alvin and the Chipmunks” automation.2023 July 10, Zachary Woolfe, “Review: Ted Hearne’s Sweet, Sad American Elegy”, in The New York Times

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Questions about auto-tuning

What is auto-tuning the present participle and gerund of?
Auto-tuning is the present participle and gerund of auto-tune.

Words near auto-tuning in the dictionary

  1. auto-tune
  2. auto-tuned
  3. auto-tuner
  4. auto-tuners
  5. auto-tunes
  6. auto-tuning
  7. auto.
  8. autoabstract
  9. autoabstracts
  10. autoaccelerating
  11. autoacceleration

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Adapted from Wiktionary: auto-tuning (page history and authors); auto-tune (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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