tweaker
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- noun
- /ˈtwiːkər/
- Informal
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- He is considered a skilled tweaker in the gaming community, known for optimizing game settings for better performance.
So Asus Extreme Tweaker, not really a better name.
- So Asus Extreme Tweaker, not really a better name.
Examples
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As a talented tweaker, she excels at improving software code to enhance its performance.
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Others are Tweakers: they take code from their Pioneer rivals, improve it, and resubmit it.
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He's known as a tweaker.
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Yet Tweakers can be very important to the development of successful, effective innovations.
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Tweakers do not get nearly the attention that pioneers do.
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Tweakers, on the other hand, are mostly an afterthought.
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Tweakers and Pioneers coexist comfortably in the world of music.
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Why would anyone want to work out a pioneering approach to a math contest problem if a tweaker can simply take it, fiddle with it a bit, and leap ahead in the contest?
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Many tech enthusiasts refer to themselves as tweakers because they love making small adjustments to their devices.
Synonyms
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6.9
A person who enjoys fixing and making small machines and gadgets for fun
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3.8
A person or thing that moves something to the right position
A person who keeps making small changes to make things better
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tweaker comes from the word tweak, which means 'to make small changes' or 'to adjust slightly'. So a tweaker is someone who likes to change little details to make something work better.