12 example sentences using retrofit.
Retrofit used in a sentence
Retrofit in a sentence as a noun
And how long would it take you to retrofit all of the some 100K+ PCs rated "secret" or above in the Government?
Things that were cheap and add a lot of value to do when building, but not cheap to retrofit. Thinking that using a site like redfin or zillow is going to make up for the depth of experience is just frankly silly.
Whenever anyone suggests adopting XYZ country's medical system in place of our own I kindly point out that we would have to retrofit their legal system as well.
When Ubuntu launches a new version it doesn't need to go and retrofit it to the thousand different types of laptop out there. The state of Android though is that the GPU/Camera/whatever drivers are binary blobs locked in to a specific kernel version.
AT&T on the other hand responded with a very strong case of Not Invented Here; they really seriously did not want to retrofit improvements like that. And tried to do various clones, like "pg" to replace "more", which was so awful it couldn't even page backwards, just to give some idea.
The FlyKly. I like it because it allows a rider to keep their existing bike, and yet to retrofit for a really reasonable price an electric motor. I like it because the vast majority of the weight within the wheel isn't a moving thing, the batteries are fixed.
Retrofit in a sentence as a verb
Why try and save a little money and risk having to retrofit or replace the displays in a few years when socially integrated, augmented reality, realtime 3D ads are in vogue.
Though conceived as a whole-system ground-up greenfield design, the principles are applicable to a lesser degree as retrofit options. Oh, and for heating your bed: a 1 liter Nalgene bottle, filled with boiling hot water, and slipped into a wool sock, will heat your bed cozily.
So if you're going to argue that the design is wrong, you need to argue for why it was wrong for the 1950s use case and interaction patterns, not try to retrofit 2014's use cases and interaction patterns onto it.
Trying to retrofit a full-featured web framework onto an event loop seems like an exercise in futility. But on the other hand, I've been writing Golang code for the past 2 months, and Golang is militantly anti-event; it doesn't even offer a select primitive!
All corporate biographies are written by people who know the end of the story and now have to retrofit some facts and omit the others to backfill the story so that it seems like a straight line leading to success/failure. I present to you a set of quick templates for writing business advice where you know how the story turned out.
The reason why some platforms have "silly" choices like stop the world M&S GC, or interpreters with AST walking is, likely, that optimization wasn't a goal in the original implementation and it's hard to retrofit it while keeping compatibility.
Retrofit definitions
a component or accessory added to something after it has been manufactured
the act of adding a component or accessory to something that did not have it when it was manufactured; "the court ordered a retrofit on all automobiles"
provide with parts, devices, or equipment not available or in use at the time of the original manufacture; "They car companies retrofitted all the old models with new carburetors"
fit in or on an existing structure, such as an older house; "The mansion was retrofitted with modern plumbing"
substitute new or modernized parts or equipment for older ones; "The laboratory retrofitted to meet the safety codes"