NOUN
- 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)
How To Use kludge In A Sentence
- The details aren't specific, and feel a little kludged.
- Text input on a tablet suffers from the same kludgey problems, as "digital ink" tends to: WhyPad?
- And it's hard to imagine any IS department tolerating kludges such as this.
- Usually some mechanism exists to export and import data between a database and an SPC / SQC system - even if that mechanism is a kludge involving a text-file transfer.
- I speak as someone who's written code to do this, by the way - it always smelled like a kludge to me, and now I understand why.
- The original network - I'm sure our technologists wouldn't like this - but it was kludged together through landlines
- Perhaps the most interesting realization is that the concept of reciprocity applies to the ‘kludge’ factor called emissivity – the correction value that permits a greybody to be modeled with planck’s law and stefan’s law – applies to the atmosphere. Gerry North's Suggested Reading on Climate Models « Climate Audit
- The $500 thing you're referring to is probably a refundable tax credit see p. 11/23, with an awful lot of kludgey mechanics surrounding it. Let's talk about the stimulus package.
- Once the text coordinate acquisition kludge is complete, the text is written to the image, and the image as shown under Step 2 in Figure 1 is written out.
- So there is nothing that the Google desktop offers I can't already kludge.
