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Tuner may refer to:
  • Antenna tuner, a device to adjust the resonance frequency of an antenna or transmission line
  • Tuner (electronics) a module or device which converts low-amplitude radio-frequency signals into a form suitable for processing by further modules or equipment.
  • Piano Tuner, a professional who adjusts the pitch of pianos using a tuning fork or a frequency counter
  • Electronic tuner, a device used by musicians to tune instruments
  • someone who adjusts or configures something
  • Car tuner, a mechanically inclined person who modifies factory vehicles for the purpose of better performance
  • TUNER, an experimental rock duo consisting of Pat Mastelotto, who plays drums and percussion and composer and touch-guitarist Markus Reuter
and ATSC tuners
  • Machine head
  • Tuner (car), a type of car, usually from Japan, which many custom parts are made for and have great handling.
  • "Tuner", a song by Mogwai

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An antenna tuner, transmatch, or antenna tuning unit (ATU) matches a transceiver with a fixed impedance (typically 50 ohms for modern transceivers) to a load (feed line and antenna) impedance which is unknown, complex or otherwise does not match.
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A tuner is a circuit module or free-standing equipment which detects radio-frequency (RF) signals usually of low amplitude and amplifies them and converts them to a form suitable for further processing.
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amplitude is a nonnegative scalar measure of a wave's magnitude of oscillation, that is, the magnitude of the maximum disturbance in the medium during one wave cycle.

Sometimes this distance is called the peak amplitude
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Radio frequency, or RF, is a frequency or rate of oscillation within the range of about 3 Hz and 300 GHz. This range corresponds to frequency of alternating current electrical signals used to produce and detect radio waves.
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signal is any time-varying quantity. Signals are often scalar-valued functions of time (waveforms), but may be vector valued and may be functions of any other relevant independent variable.

The concept is broad, and hard to define precisely.
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piano tuning is the art of making adjustments to the tensions in the strings of a piano so that the instrument is in tune.

Introduction

The meaning of the term in tune
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An Electronic tuner is a device used by musicians to tune instruments. A musician plays a note, and a display (a needle, an LCD simulated needle, LED lights, or in older models, a spinning translucent disk illuminated by a strobe light--the tuning of a sample note is
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Car tuning is both an industry and a popular hobby, in which a car is modified in order to improve its performance and handling and better suit the owner's driving style. As most cars leave the factory set up for average driver expectations and average conditions, tuning has
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machine head, also called a tuner, tuning peg, or tuning machine, is part of a string instrument ranging from violins to guitars to double basses, an apparatus for tensioning and thereby tuning a string, usually located at the headstock.
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CAR is a three-letter acronym that can stand for:
  • Central African Republic
  • Action Committee for Renewal, a political party of Togo
  • Canadian Airborne Regiment
  • Canadian Atlantic Railway
  • Canadian Aviation Regulations
  • Canonical anticommutation relation

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A Microtuner or microtonal tuner is an electronic device or software program designed to modify and test the tuning of musical instruments (in particular synthesizers) with microtonal precision, allowing for the design and construction of microtonal scales and just intonation
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Engine tuning is the adjustment, modification or design of internal combustion engines to yield optimal performance, either in terms of power output or economy. It has a long history, almost as long as the development of the car in general, originating with the development of early
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custom car is a phrase that became prominent in American pop culture in the 1950s, and has enjoyed special interest popularity since that time. It relates to a passenger vehicle that has been modified to improve its performance by altering or replacing the engine and transmission
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TV tuner card is a computer component 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.
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Electrical resonance occurs in an electric circuit at a particular resonance frequency when the impedance between the input and output of the circuit is at a minimum (or when the transfer function is at a maximum).
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