Get to know Kludge better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like collection or aggregation.
Kludge meaning
- An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before implementing a finished design.
- Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently.
- An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts.
Synonyms of Kludge
Using Kludge
- The main meaning on this page is: An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before implementing a finished design. | Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently. | An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts.
- Useful related words include: collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage.
- In the example corpus, kludge often appears in combinations such as: the kludge, kludge is, kludge or.
Context around Kludge
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kludge
- In this selection, "kludge" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, variant, verb, horrible, article, refers and eventually stand out and add context to how "kludge" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a horrible kludge and as the kludge or dongle. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kludge" sits close to words such as abdulai, abhinandan and abhor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kludge
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The building of a Kludge, however, is not work for amateurs. (11 words)
The term kludge would then seem to have independent origins, possibly in Britain. (13 words)
It is in this latter sense that "Kludge" is used by computer hardware men. (14 words)
Part of the firmware was held on an external 16 kB ROM cartridge (also known as the " kludge " or " dongle "), until the QL was redesigned to accommodate the necessary 48 kB of ROM internally, instead of the 32 kB initially specified. (41 words)
Computer science In modern computing terminology, a kludge (or often a "hack") is a solution to a problem, doing a task, or fixing a system that is inefficient, inelegant or even unfathomable, but which nevertheless (more or less) works. (39 words)
Rather than continue to struggle to find out exactly what is causing the bug and how to fix it, the programmer may hack the problem by the simple kludge of writing new code which compensates. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
After Granholm's 1962 "How to Design a Kludge" article popularized the kluge variant kludge, both were interchangeably used and confused.
Sometimes the kludge is introduced in order to keep backwards compatibility, but often it is simply introduced because the kludge is an easier alternative.
This OED2 entry also includes the verb kludge "to improvise with a kludge or kludges" and kludgemanship "skill in designing or applying kludges".
For those who opposed it, ObamaCare represented the greatest government intrusion in our time into the private economy — and something that was going to reduce an already messy health system into a horrible kludge.
Acronym Other suggested folk etymologies or backronyms for kludge or kluge is from klumsy, lame, ugly, dumb, but good enough, or klutzy, lashup, under, going, engineering.
Computer science In modern computing terminology, a kludge (or often a "hack") is a solution to a problem, doing a task, or fixing a system that is inefficient, inelegant or even unfathomable, but which nevertheless (more or less) works.
In computer networking, use of NAT (Network Address Translation) (RFC 1918) or PAT (Port Address Translation) to cope with the shortage of IPv4 addresses is an example of a kludge.
In FidoNet terminology, kludge refers to a piece of control data embedded inside a message.
In the typical machinations of language in evolutionary growth, the word "Kludge" eventually came to mean "not so smart" or "pretty ridiculous".
It is in this latter sense that "Kludge" is used by computer hardware men.
More commonly, a kludge is a poorly working heuristic which was expected to work adequately.
Part of the firmware was held on an external 16 kB ROM cartridge (also known as the " kludge " or " dongle "), until the QL was redesigned to accommodate the necessary 48 kB of ROM internally, instead of the 32 kB initially specified.
Rather, at every turn, brain design has been a kludge, a workaround, a jumble, a pastiche.
Rather than continue to struggle to find out exactly what is causing the bug and how to fix it, the programmer may hack the problem by the simple kludge of writing new code which compensates.
Rather than setting up a timing system, the kludge was to make the internal wires extra-long, increasing the distance and thus increasing the time the electrical signal took to reach its destination.
The building of a Kludge, however, is not work for amateurs.
There is a certain, indefinable, masochistic finesse that must go into true Kludge building.
The term kludge would then seem to have independent origins, possibly in Britain.
This entry notes kluge, which is now often spelled kludge, "was the original spelling, reported around computers as far back as the mid-1950s and, at that time, used exclusively of hardware kluges".
Thus, MSC personnel missed no opportunity to disparage the Skylab project, calling it "the kludge".
Common combinations with kludge
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the kludge 6×
- kludge is 4×
- kludge or 4×
- terminology kludge 2×
- of kludge 2×
- kludge was 2×