Definition of "tuner" []

• One that tunes: a piano tuner. (noun)
• A device for tuning, especially an electronic circuit or device used to select signals at a specific radio frequency for amplification and conversion to sound. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "TV tuner is different from wifi card that gives access to internet."
• "While the coax from the antenna to the tuner is short enough that increased attenuation with higher VSWR is not likely to be a problem, as has been pointed (and debated) in previous articles, the mismatch could cause a reflection that stresses the equalizer in the DTV tuner."
• "Although given the modern subcompact "tuner" - style cars favored by teens, and given their modern parents, who stay at work until six or eight in the evening, it's probably been a long time since anything other than the stashing of beer cans and bongs has been done in the back seats of cars."