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kludge
noun
An improvised device, usually crudely constructed. Typically used to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design.
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Such a kludge is little more than a stop-gap measure, designed to encourage wealthy early-adopters to splurge on the latest video fad.
What with Ted Cruz, John Boehner and the rest of the GOP throwing together legislative kludge after kludge in a doomed attempt to repeal the gigantic kludge that is Obamacare, "kludgeocracy" is one of the best lenses through which to look at the health-care battlefield.
The Higgs boson was actually the standard model's first "kludge".
Some 1,500 years later, Johannes Kepler, a German astronomer, replaced the whole complex edifice with three simple laws.Some people think modern astronomy is based on a kludge similar to Ptolemy's.
It was, however, what computer programmers call a kludge: a dirty, inelegant solution.
Government, any government, is a kludge unit.In theory, the nudge unit's new autonomy should ease these concerns.
Thus, when used with a phone, an LTE network has to run a Skype-like kludge to make calls and send text messages.
DIGITAL cameras are getting cheaper and more capable all the time, yet they still rely on an inelegant technological kludge.
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