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tweakable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English tweak Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English tweakable From tweak + -able.

Meanings

  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. (not-comparable) Of a block cipher: accepting a second input (the "tweak"), used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.

Forms

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most tweakable Degree=Sup lexicographic
more tweakable Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

untweakable