a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together)
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kludge::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection |
Examples of kludge
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So I say we should keep the images as a kludge before discarding the lower-case.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Some people think modern astronomy is based on a kludge similar to Ptolemy's.
From the economist.com
This is a recently added feature in Windows, nothing more than a kludge.
From the scienceblogs.com
Frankly, American healthcare for the population as a whole is and always will be a kludge.
From the economist.com
So an exception was made, a loophole, and, as it turned out, a kludge.
From the forbes.com
Keeping track of our health information is a complicated kludge just begging to be digitized.
From the newsweek.com
The Shuttle was a ridiculous kludge from the start, and never accomplished much of anything.
From the scienceblogs.com
At this point, though, he introduces quite a large kludge of his own.
From the economist.com
Dark matter was nothing more than a kludge to cover the failings of gravity-only cosmology.
From the newscientist.com
- A badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together)
- A kludge (or kluge) is a workaround, a quick-and-dirty solution, a clumsy or inelegant, yet effective, solution to a problem, typically using parts that are cobbled together. ...
- Kludge (or Kludge Sound) was an independent American magazine which covered alternative music including rock, punk, and metal amongst others. This magazine featured the latest news, interviews, live shows, as well as album reviews, and includes articles by such writers as Chris Green.
- An improvised device, usually crudely constructed. Typically used to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design; any construction or practice, typically inelegant, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently; an amalgamated mass of totally unrelated parts ...
- The ESL display, a feature of CTSS. This device was a vector scope connected to channel D of the IBM 7094, with substantial intelligence in the display controller. It inspired features of the Multics graphics system.
- A fix that patches things together so that it works. It doesn't figure out the problem. It just works. Rhymes with stooge.
- A method that gets the job done but isn't very elegant. Usually the result is a program that can't be extended the next time a new feature is needed.
- [rhymes with "stooge"] n. (1) A Rube Goldberg-style device which appears unlikely to work but does anyhow. (2) A method by which something is effectively but inelegantly made to perform a function for which it was not designed. (3) Something complex that doesn't work, e.g., this definition.
- An inelegant but workable solution for a software or hardware problem.
