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Placeholder may refer to:

Contents

• Language
• Mathematics and computer science
• Other uses
• See also

Language

• Placeholder word, a term or terms referring to something or somebody whose name is not known or, in that particular context, is not significant or relevant.
• Placeholder name
• 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

• Line stander, a person standing in a queue for another.
• Placeholder (politics), a person temporarily appointed to an office that would otherwise remain vacant.

See also

• Filler (disambiguation)
• Spacer (disambiguation)
• Stand-in
• Substitute (disambiguation)
• Stadtholder

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