tweakable

English

Etymology

tweak +‎ -able

Adjective

tweakable (comparative more tweakable, superlative most tweakable)

  1. That can be tweaked; moddable, customizable.
    • 2007, David Pogue, Windows Vista for Starters: The Missing Manual
      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. (cryptography, 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.
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