Definition of twiddle
twiddle
verb - transitive
- to change something in a small, mindless way.
Try twiddling those bits and see if it fixes the bug.
- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
Last edited on Nov 11 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.
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