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- verb Present participle of
detune .
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The detuning by a quarter·tone in one piccolo, clarinet, trumpet and synthesiser enabled a more accurate realisation of the harmonic series.
Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries 2011
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The detuning by a quarter·tone in one piccolo, clarinet, trumpet and synthesiser enabled a more accurate realisation of the harmonic series.
Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries 2011
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So, even though the iPhone 4 experiences the customary cell phone signal reduction, and in addition significant detuning, the vast majority of users won't see dropped voice calls (though they could have slower 3G data transfers, which may or may not be noticeable).
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So, if all cell phones suffer signal reduction and the iPhone 4 has detuning as well, why aren't more users complaining?
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The other related issue is that when held in the left hand, the skin electrically "bridges" two separate antennas of different lengths, coupling them together and causing detuning, which was noticed and tested by Brian Klug and Anand Lal Shimpi at AnandTech. com.
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In one, he talks about the differences between attenuation and detuning.
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Like Webb, they discuss both attenuation and detuning.
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The two issues are signal attenuation – reduction - and antenna detuning.
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"The Spin membrane is still in place, working, thinking, but the temporal function is finished, complete ... that's what the flickers were, the byproduct of a detuning process, and now the membrane has been made permeable so that something can enter the atmosphere through it, something large ...."
Spin 2005
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The multi-output support really makes a difference, especially to create great "stereo sounds", where maybe the odd harmonics go in one speaker and the even ones in another - or using "macro chorus", gradually detuning 64 oscillators or more per voice - alternating between left and right speakers.
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