Knobs

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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".