knobs

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knobs - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  knobs
   pl.n.
  
     Configurable options, even in software and even those you can't
  adjust
     in real time. Anything you can twiddle is a knob. "Has this PNG
     viewer got an alpha knob?" Software may be described as having "knobs
     and switches" or occasionally "knobs and lights". See also nerd  knob