Placeholder

Placeholder may refer to:

In language:

  • Placeholder name, words that can refer to objects or people, whose names are unknown or irrelevant
  • Filler text, shares some characteristics of a real written text, but is random or otherwise generated
  • Lorem ipsum, text used to demonstrate the font, typography or layout in a document

In mathematics and computer science:

  • Free variables and bound variables, symbols that will later be replaced by some literal string
  • Metasyntactic variable, alias term used to denote the subject matter under discussion
  • Format placeholder, used to format strings in print functions

In politics:

  • Placeholder (politics), a person appointed to an office temporarily, until a permanent replacement can be chosen.