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.
- A possible compromise may be to take advantage of kludges such as the DATA pseudo-file handle to tuck data at the end of a script.
- It wouldn't have been perfect, but it almost certainly would have been better than the kludge we're ending up with.
- But InterAction relies on attorneys adding contact information and dealing with its kludgey interface. Contact Networks - Enterprise Relationship Management
- The audience laughed out loud when the Microsoft guy showed off a kludgey system that lets you fetch Outlook e-mail messages using voice commands from a cell phone. Microsoft Vista: Not 'People Ready'
- Google has struggled to maintain the integrity of its search results ever since, with recent kludges blocking millions of results.
- If the UI changes, the kludge can be redone without affecting a single script.
- Thus you either change the new code, or try and kludge the old code, or hack around the old code with a whole new bit.
- The portable version would either need to hook directly into your audio source or use a microphone which is kludgey at best ... It had to happen sooner or later
- Meanwhile, the cranky, kludgey world of open 802.11 base-stations gains ground every day. Boing Boing: June 23, 2002 - June 29, 2002 Archives