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The illusion of a small change, usually followed by three more small changes.
means To make a small adjustment to something, often fiddly or fine-tuned rather than sweeping.
from Tweak traces back to Old English twiccian, meaning to pluck or pinch sharply — think of tweaking someone's nose or ear, a quick pinching twist. The physical, slightly mischievous sense of a sharp little pull is the ancestor of today's meaning: a small corrective twist applied to a plan, a setting, or a piece of writing, rather than a face.
- origin
- from twick, to pinch or pull sharply
- programmer trap
- one tweak reliably spawns five new bugs
- design lie
- quick tweak rarely means quick
- slang shift
- also means wired, jittery, up all night