Kludge vs Sludge - What's the difference?
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(electronics engineering) An improvised device, usually crudely constructed. Typically used to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design.
(general) Any construction or practice, typically inelegant, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently.
(computing) An amalgamated mass of totally unrelated parts forming a distressing whole.
to build or use a kludge
A generic term for solids separated from suspension in a liquid.
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, title= A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.
A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a body of water.
(uncountable, music) sludge metal
(informal) to slump or slouch.
to slop or drip slowly.
As a noun kludge
is (electronics engineering) an improvised device, usually crudely constructed typically used to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design.As a verb kludge
is to build or use a kludge.As an initialism sludge is
(emergency medicine) a mnemonic ("salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation, gastrointestinal upset, emesis") used to identify the common symptoms of certain affections of a cholinergic toxidrome.kludge
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* workaround * quick fix * stopgap * bodgesludge
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(wikipedia sludge)Noun
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.