tweakable

adj — 2 senses

tweakable

adj

Etymology From tweak + -able.

1

That can be tweaked; moddable, customizable.

  • And it's every bit as tweakable as previous versions of Windows. You can turn off the new Aero look, or just selected parts of it.2007, David Pogue, Windows Vista for Starters: The Missing Manual:
2

Computing, Cryptography, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Of a block cipher: accepting a second input (the "tweak"), used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.

Derived terms
untweakable

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