Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who tweaks something. 2 A tool for making small adjustments. 3 (context slang English) A person addicted to methamphetamines.
Wikipedia
Tweak or tweaker may refer to:
- Tweaker, or alternate spelling "tweeker", an individual who uses stimulants, most commonly methamphetamine and amphetamine.
- Tweak, a street name for the drug
- Tweaking, the act of making subtle improvements to machines, especially a computer
- In cryptography, particularly disk encryption, "tweakable" refers to a group of modes of operation for block ciphers.
- Tweak (programming environment)
- Tweaker (build tool)
- Tweakers, a Dutch technology website
- TweakVista / Tweak7
- Tweak UI
- Tweakbench
- Tweak (band)
- Tweaker (band)
- Tweaking (behavior), see Stereotypy, slang term for someone exhibiting compulsive or repetitive behaviour
- Tweek Tweak, a character from the animated television series South Park
- TWEAK, a cytokine encoded by the gene TNFSF12
Tweaker is an American alternative rock collaboration founded by Chris Vrenna in the late 1990s. Tweaker's musical style incorporates synthpop, progressive rock, modern jazz and electronica genres, and is characterized by a generally melancholy and sombre sound with distinctive artwork to match.
The album The Attraction to All Things Uncertain was Vrenna's "solo" debut and it was not until the follow-up album, 2 a.m. Wakeup Call, that Clint Walsh was announced as a permanent fixture to the band. While Vrenna and Walsh supply most instruments and electronics, many other famous musicians have lent their voices and talents to Tweaker, including Robert Smith, David Sylvian, Burton C. Bell, Craig Wedren, Will Oldham, Hamilton Leithauser, Buzz Osborne, Jonathan Bates and Johnny Marr.
The albums that have been released follow a central theme that was planned out and this was given to the collaborators. Both albums' cover art were paintings by Joe Sorren.
Tweaker wrote and performed the Soundtrack to Doom 3, Of which the theme song was released via the band's website. The rest of the soundtrack is accessible from the game's files.
As Chris Vrenna and Clint Walsh, Tweaker did music for the animated television show Xiaolin Showdown.
While the Doom 3 theme was Heavy Metal-oriented (to the point of often being misattributed to Tool), most of Tweaker's music presents a unique combination of synthpop, shoegaze, modern jazz, Dark Ambient and industrial.
It was rumored for a while that Tweaker would release a new album in 2008, although no new material surfaced, possibly due to Vrenna's duties towards Marilyn Manson, as he worked with Manson on his 2009 album The High End of Low.
Tweaker is an open-source, extendible software development build automation platform to consolidate the creation, management, and execution of scripts and custom utilities under a single location, intermix any languages (scripted or compiled) to perform tasks, allow common user interaction dialogs from all languages, and enable tasks to be executed from remote clients.
This tool was created independently then used initially by a subset of software and systems engineers developing the NATO ACCS project, a multi-language, distributed, real-time system.
Usage examples of "tweaker".
We found that when we manipulated the tweaker, we were actually choosing a descriptor, pulling it from the cloud, and changing it directly.
From this budget came money to build a larger laboratory in Melas Dorsa, for research on constructing larger versions of tweaker mirror mat- [ ter drives.
We took the minimal risk, but kept all news of the tweaker projects away from the thinkers.
Stephen and I made up a working hypothesis on the relative position tweaks, worked out the momentum and energy descriptor co-responses and scaling, specified final position and state, stimulated the tweaker to access descriptors for every particle in Phobos, considered as a complete system .
Pincher and Yueh Liu remained at Tharsis Research, working on a backup tweaker and overseeing the growth of more thinkers.
The Ice Pit tweaker appears larger than ours, but that doesn't matter.
Our tweaker may show instability when moving so much mass across so great a distance.
I had not seen him come into the lab, but he stood a few meters from the tweaker, hands in his pockets, hair thoroughly tousled.
The main laboratory had been finished and construction of the main tweakers had begun.
Around him, the support equipment for the largest of all our tweakers sat ready.