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finetune

finetune 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 finetune

third-person singular presentfinetunes
present participlefinetuning
past participlefinetuned
pastfinetuned

Questions about finetune

What is finetune the alternative form of?
Finetune is the alternative form of fine-tune.

Words near finetune in the dictionary

  1. finestructure
  2. finetooth
  3. finetooth shark
  4. finetooth sharks
  5. finetop
  6. finetune
  7. finetuned
  8. finetunes
  9. finetuning
  10. finew
  11. Finey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: finetune (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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