Tuner
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Tuner may refer to someone or something which adjusts or configures a mechanical, electronic, or musical device.

Electronic

  • Antenna tuner
    Antenna tuner
    An antenna tuner, transmatch or antenna tuning unit is a device connected between a radio transmitter or receiver and its antenna to improve the efficiency of the power transfer between them by matching the impedance of the equipment to the antenna...

    , a device to adjust the resonance frequency of an antenna or transmission line
  • Tuner (electronics), a module or device which separates out one channel from low-amplitude radio-frequency signals for further processing
    • Tuner (radio)
      Tuner (radio)
      A radio tuner is a subsystem that receives radio broadcasts and converts them into audio-frequency signals which can be fed into an amplifier driving a loudspeaker. FM tuner, AM tuner, Digital Audio Broadcasting DAB tuner, etc. are types of radio tuner dealing with transmissions using different...

    • Tuner (television)
  • TV tuner card
    TV tuner card
    A TV tuner card is a kind of television tuner that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Most TV tuners also function as video capture cards, allowing them to record television programs onto a hard disk much like the Tivo digital video recorder does.-Variants: The interfaces for...

    , a device that allows reception of digital television on a computer

Musical

  • Electronic tuner
    Electronic tuner
    The term electronic tuner can refer to a number of different things, depending which discipline you wish to study.In the Discipline of radio frequency electronics an electronic tuner is a device which tunes across a part of the radio frequency spectrum by the application of a voltage or appropriate...

    , a device used by musicians and technicians to measure the pitch of a musical instrument to adjust or correct the input signal to the desired pitch
  • Machine head
    Machine head
    A machine head is part of a string instrument ranging from guitars to double basses, a geared apparatus for applying tension and thereby tuning a string, usually located at the headstock. A headstock has several machine heads, one per string...

    , a flat handle for the worm gear on a string instrument upon which a string is wound

See also

  • Tuning (disambiguation)
  • Microtuner
    Microtuner
    A microtuner or microtonal tuner is an electronic device or software program designed to modify and test the tuning of musical instruments with microtonal precision, allowing for the design and construction of microtonal scales and just intonation scales, and for tuning intervals that differ from...

  • Custom car
    Custom car
    A custom car is a passenger vehicle that has been modified in either of the following two ways. First, a custom car may be altered to improve its performance, often by altering or replacing the engine and transmission. Second, a custom car may be a personal "styling" statement, making the car look...

  • Electrical resonance
    Electrical resonance
    Electrical resonance occurs in an electric circuit at a particular resonance frequency where the imaginary parts of circuit element impedances or admittances cancel each other...

  • Tuna
    Tuna
    Tuna is a salt water fish from the family Scombridae, mostly in the genus Thunnus. Tuna are fast swimmers, and some species are capable of speeds of . Unlike most fish, which have white flesh, the muscle tissue of tuna ranges from pink to dark red. The red coloration derives from myoglobin, an...

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