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twiddle
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twiddle

See tilde.

1.(character)twiddle - The tilde character.
2.(jargon)twiddle - (To make) a small or insignificant change. E.g. twiddling a program often fixes one bug and generates several new ones (see also shotgun debugging). Bits are often twiddled. Twiddling a switch or knob implies much less sense of purpose than toggling or tweaking it; see frobnicate. Bit twiddling connotes aimlessness, and at best doesn't specify what you're doing to the bit; to "toggle a bit" has a more specific meaning.


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He had so many twiddly elements with his hands that I couldn't do," Williams recalls, "and then I couldn't do Alvin's isolations with the head.
Dudley Williams: love songs to Alvin by Tracy, Robert / Dance Magazine
We could even make the ornament mechanically, and do the twiddly bits in plastic without really detracting from the effect (surely Nash, that great master of stuck-on stucco would have welcomed fibreglass with acclaim).
What's the point of the past? by Davey, Peter / The Architectural Review
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