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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing" [syn: polish, refine, fine-tune, down]
2: adjust finely; "fine-tune the engine" [syn: fine-tune, tweak]
3: make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder" [syn: calibrate, graduate, fine-tune]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1967 1. a. to adjust precisely so as to bring to the highest level of performance or effectiveness <fine-tune a TV set> <fine-tune the format> b. to improve through minor alteration or revision <fine-tune the temperature of the room> 2. to stabilize (an economy) by small-scale fiscal and monetary manipulations

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(fine-tunes, fine-tuning, fine-tuned) If you fine-tune something, you make very small and precise changes to it in order to make it as successful or effective as it possibly can be. We do not try to fine-tune the economy on the basis of short-term predictions... VERB: V n • fine-tuning There's a lot of fine-tuning to be done yet.