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retuning

retuning is the present participle and gerund of retune.

Meaning of retune

Verb

retune (third-person singular simple present retunes, present participle retuning, simple past and past participle retuned)

  1. To tune again.
    • After the long first movement, the orchestra had to retune.

Noun

retuning (plural retunings)

  1. The act by which something is retuned; a subsequent tuning.

Forms of retuning

pluralretunings

Questions about retuning

What does retuning mean?
Retuning means the act by which something is retuned; a subsequent tuning.
What is retuning the present participle and gerund of?
Retuning is the present participle and gerund of retune.
What part of speech is retuning?
Retuning is a noun.
What is the plural of retuning?
The plural of retuning is retunings.

Words near retuning in the dictionary

  1. retune
  2. retuned
  3. retuner
  4. retuners
  5. retunes
  6. retuning
  7. retunings
  8. returf
  9. returfed
  10. returfing
  11. returfs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retuning (page history and authors); retune (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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