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What is the noun for tweaking?

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tweak
  1. A slight adjustment or modification.
  2. Trouble; distress; tweag.
  3. (cryptography) An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Seemingly reading her mind, he leaned a little farther over the table, purposely reaching for one of her long braids and giving it a tweak.”
      “I gave Michael's ear an affectionate last tweak before releasing it.”
      “Should the clubs address the whole issue of who runs Scottish rugby or is the present system workable with a minor tweak here and there?”
tweaker
  1. A person who tweaks something.
  2. A tool for making small adjustments.
  3. (slang) A person addicted to methamphetamine.
  4. Examples:
    1. “Grasp leeward spinnaker sheet forrard of the tweaker and walk back with it, pulling the spinnaker into the hatch.”
      “He was a tweaker to the last, endlessly refining the same territory he had claimed as a young man.”
      “The tweaker inherits things as they are, and has to push and pull them toward some more nearly perfect solution.”
tweag
  1. (obsolete) Trouble; distress; perplexity.
  2. (Britain dialectal) Doubt; perplexity.
tweakage
  1. (informal, rare) Tweaking; minor adjustments.
tweague
  1. (Britain, obsolete, dialect) Alternative form of tweag
tweaking
tweakings
tweakers
  1. plural of tweaker
  2. Examples:
    1. “Well, follow the link to find out what the tweakers thought.”
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