placeholder
/ˈpleɪsˌhoʊldər/
noun
- A symbol, text, or image used temporarily to represent something that will be added or replaced later.
- The designer put a gray box as a placeholder for the final photograph.
- The website form had placeholder text inside the input fields to show what to type.
- In the document, use the word 'TBD' as a placeholder until we decide the date.
- A person who holds a position or role temporarily until a permanent replacement is found.
- The interim coach was just a placeholder until the team hired a permanent one.
- He was elected as a placeholder candidate to keep the seat warm for the party's preferred nominee.
- She served as a placeholder manager while the company searched for a new director.
- In mathematics or computing, a symbol (such as a variable or underscore) that stands for an unknown or unspecified value.
- In the template, the curly braces act as placeholders for user data.
- In the equation, use x as a placeholder for the unknown number.
- The programmer used an underscore as a placeholder for a value that would be filled in later.
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