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}
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {nerd knob}{twiddle}]