fine-tune

How To Use fine-tune In A Sentence

• But often, companies will fine-tune their policies to help responsible pet owners.
• The man was marvellous, nonchalantly building to crescendos with the fine-tuned trickery of an old master.
• However, the masses of scalar fields receive large corrections from quantum effects (so-called quadratic divergences) and, unless one fine-tunes the theory a truly ridiculous amount, the expected mass of the Higgs boson may be as high as the Planck scale - sixteen orders of magnitude higher than the weak scale. The LHC Olympics and the Mysteries of Mass
• As explained above, superstring theory might allow enough variation in the variations in the constants of physics among bubble universes to make it reasonably likely that a fine-tuned universe would be produced. A Fine-Tuned Multiverse
• Practice sessions are needed to fine-tune parts of your game, working on team offenses and defenses.
• Carnivore gene pools have genes that program prey-detecting sense organs, prey-catching claws, carnassial teeth, meat-digesting enzymes and many other genes, all fine-tuned to co-operate with each other. The God Delusion
• I would rather let the sector develop than try to regulate or fine-tune it.
• And so Max turns from hireling to hostage, and Collateral's fine-tuned thriller motor gets purring.
• A Chinese astronomer from the University of St Andrews has fine-tuned Einstein's groundbreaking theory of gravity, creating a 'simple' theory which could solve a dark mystery that has baffled astrophysicists for three-quarters of a century. Archive 2006-02-12
• The man whom Patrick had seen through binoculars was using an artillery sight to fine-tune the angle.