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fine tune

fine tune is the alternative form of fine-tune.

Meaning of fine-tune

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To make small adjustments to something in order to optimise its performance.
    • Jim fine-tuned the radio until the sound was perfect.
  2. (artificial intelligence) To further train a trained model on a specialised dataset in order to adapt or optimise its performance for a particular task or purpose.

Forms of fine tune

third-person singular presentfine tunes
present participlefine tuning
past participlefine tuned
pastfine tuned

Questions about fine tune

What is fine tune the alternative form of?
Fine tune is the alternative form of fine-tune.

Words near fine tune in the dictionary

  1. fine shyt
  2. fine structure
  3. fine structure constant
  4. fine stuff
  5. fine toothcomb
  6. fine tune
  7. fine tuned
  8. fine tunes
  9. fine tuning
  10. fine weather for ducks
  11. fine words butter no parsnips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fine tune (page history and authors); fine-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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