Placeholder may refer to:
Language
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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.
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Placeholder name
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Filler text, text generated to fill space or provide unremarkable and/or standardised text.
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Lorem ipsum, a standard Latin text most commonly used to demonstrate a font, typography or layout.
Mathematics and computer science
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Free variable, a symbol subsequently replaced by a value or string.
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Interpoled variable of a string interpolation process.
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Metasyntactic variable, a placeholder name (see above) as used in computer science.
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Format placeholder, used in computing to format strings within print functions (printf).
Other uses
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Line stander, a person standing in a queue for another.
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Placeholder (politics), a person temporarily appointed to an office that would otherwise remain vacant.
See also
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Filler (disambiguation)
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Spacer (disambiguation)
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Stand-in
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Substitute (disambiguation)
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Stadtholder