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Inelegant workaround
Answer for the clue "Inelegant workaround ", 6 letters:
kludge
Alternative clues for the word kludge
- Programmer's quick-and-dirty workaround
- Clumsy workaround
- Quick-and-dirty solution
- Workable if awkward solution to a computer problem
- 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)
Word definitions for kludge in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context electronics engineering English) An improvised device, usually crudely constructed. Typically used to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design. 2 (context general English) Any construction or practice, typically inelegant, ...
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Kludge was a Los Angeles -based online music magazine devoted to long-form music journalism , album reviews, music news and interviews. It included a media section and a discussion forum. Founded in 2000 by editor-in-chief Arturo Perez, the magazine developed ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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)
Usage examples of kludge.
So Hiro had to kludge something together, in order that the Metaverse would not, over time, become littered with inert, dismembered avatars that never decayed.
The old neighborhoods of Shanghai, Feedless or with overhead Feeds kludged in on bamboo stilts, seemed frighteningly inert, like an opium addict squatting in the middle of a frenetic downtown street, blowing a reed of sweet smoke out between his teeth, staring into some ancient dream that all the bustling pedestrians had banished to unfrequented parts of their minds.
ESA conventions and to actually run the systems analysis and production-planning because, as you know, these actually require hairy, kludged combinations of U.
From the little I understand of it, the persona programs were really kludges, just as likely to hang as to work right.
She had standing bids on Kate in the ractive version of Taming of the Shrew (which was a butcherous kludge, but popular among a certain sort of male user).
Our safety interlocks are normally impossible to circumvent, but many of them have been kludged together so we could keep the Tevatron running during the Main Injector construction.
They’re experts at this, kludging from one technology and adding to another.
So she had to do some drilling, bending, and creative kludging, with advice from Maltz and Paldor.
Despite our kludging, or maybe because of it, USSR had a space station twelve years before one piece was launched for a NASA space station.
They found the data in all that clutter and checked it out and it looked interesting, but they didn't have the necessary skills to deal with the ESA conventions and to actually run the systems analysis and production-planning because, as you know, these actually require hairy, kludged combinations of U.