Placeholder
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Placeholder may refer to:
Language
- Placeholder name, a term or terms referring to something or somebody whose name is not known or, in that particular context, is not significant or relevant.
- Filler text, text generated to fill space or provide unremarkable and/or standardised text.
- Lorem ipsum, a standard Latin text most commonly used to demonstrate a font, typography or layout.
Mathematics and computer science
- Free variable, a symbol subsequently replaced by a value or string.
- Interpoled variable of a string interpolation process.
- Metasyntactic variable, a placeholder name (see above) as used in computer science.
- Format placeholder, used in computing to format strings within print functions (
printf).
Other uses
- Placeholder (politics), a person temporarily appointed to an office that would otherwise remain vacant.
See also
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