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• widdle: n. 1. Tilde (ASCII 1111110, `~'). Also called `squiggle', `sqiggle' (sic --- pronounced /skig'l/), and `twaddle', but twiddle is the most common term.
  2. A small and insignificant change to a program....
• frobnicate /frob'ni-kayt/ vt. [Poss. derived from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but `frobnicate' is recognized as the official full form.
  ] To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices....
• frobnicate: /frob'ni-kayt/ vt. [Poss. derived from {frobnitz}, and usually abbreviated to {frob}, but `frobnicate' is recognized as the official full form.
  ] To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices....
• weak: vt. 1. To change slightly, usually in reference to a value.
  Also used synonymously with {twiddle}. If a program is almost correct, rather than figure out the precise problem you might just keep tweaking it until it works....
• bit bashing n. (alt. `bit diddling' or bit twiddling) Term used to describe any of several kinds of low- programming characterized by manipulation of bi
  flag, nybble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data...
• oggle vt. To change a bit from whatever state it is in to the other state
  o change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. This comes from `toggle switches', such as standard light switches, though the word `toggle' actually refers to the mechanism that keeps the switch in the position to which it is flipped rather than to the fact that the switch has two positions....
• oggle: vt. To change a {bit} from whatever state it is in to the other state
  o change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. This comes from `toggle switches', such as standard light switches, though the word `toggle' actually refers to the mechanism that keeps the switch in the position to which it is flipped rather than to the fact that the switch has two positions....
• weak vt. 1. To change slightly, usually in reference to a value.
  Also used synonymously with twiddle. If a program is almost correct, rather than figure out the precise problem you might just keep tweaking it until it works....
• bit n. [from the mainstream meaning and `Binary digIT'] 1.
  [techspeak] The unit of information; the amount of information obtained by asking a yes-or-no question for which the two outcomes are equally probable....