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knobology

noun

Etymology

From knob + -ology.

  1. derived from knappr — “small projection, knob (button, head of a stick, etc.)”
  2. inherited from cnæp
  3. derived from *knappô✻
  4. derived from knobbe — “knob, knot in wood, bud”
  5. inherited from knobbe
  6. suffixed as knobology — “knob + ology”

Definitions

  1. The functionality of controls on an instrument as relevant to their application.

    • Knobology directly relates to "KISS," the acronym for "keep it simple, stupid."
    • Micro-level guidelines are concerned with knobology and recommend specific button styles or control and indicator choices (to use LabVIEW terminology).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for knobology. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA