Originally Posted By: Stieglitz
Detente in the world of electronics also means points of higher rotatinal resistance in an audio or video attenuating switch. For example, there are volume knobs on amplifiers and mixing consoles that have continuous rotation or may have "detentes" at, say, each 2 decibel increment to imporve the accuracy of the volume setting.


If this is the def. that you want a simpler or more common synonym for what about "setting" as in "I turned it to a higher setting."