Tweakable

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    Of a block cipher: accepting a second input (the "tweak"), used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher. not-comparable

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"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."

Etymology

From tweak + -able.

Related phrases

block cipher

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