Usually means: Adjusting details for optimal performance.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word fine tune:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. fine-tune: Merriam-Webster
  2. fine-tune: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fine-tune: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fine-tune, fine-tune: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fine-tune: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fine-Tune, Fine-tune, fine-tune: Wordnik
  7. fine-tune: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fine-tune: Wiktionary
  9. fine-tune: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fine-tune: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fine-tune: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fine-tune, fine tune: Dictionary.com
  13. fine-tune: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. fine-tune: Rhymezone
  15. fine-tune: FreeDictionary.org
  16. fine-tune: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. fine-tune: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. fine tune: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fine-tune: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fine-tune: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Fine tune)

▸ verb:  Alternative form of fine-tune [(transitive) To make small adjustments to (something) until it is optimal.]

Similar:
calibrate, down, refine, Polish, graduate, finetune, fine-tune, tweak, precisionise, autotune, more...

Opposite:
coarse tune, rough tune, adjust roughly

Types:
pitch, tempo, volume, reverb, delay, chorus, tremolo, phaser, more...

Phrases:
fine tune skills, more...

Adjectives:
detuned, tuned, invert, key, attuned, tuneable, tunable, transposing, open, descending, dynamic

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Similar:
calibrate, down, refine, Polish, graduate, finetune, fine-tune, tweak, precisionise, autotune, more...

Opposite:
coarse tune, rough tune, adjust roughly

Types:
pitch, tempo, volume, reverb, delay, chorus, tremolo, phaser, more...

Phrases:
fine tune skills, more...

Adjectives:
detuned, tuned, invert, key, attuned, tuneable, tunable, transposing, open, descending, dynamic



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