placeholder
占位符,占位者,占位器,占位剂
Definitions
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- : something that marks or temporarily fills a place: I couldn’t find my bookmark, so I put a coaster in my book as a placeholder.We’re using placeholder art in this mock-up of the ad layout.
- : Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- : a person who holds a government office, especially one appointed to the position in return for political support or favors.
Examples
One could even argue that Mother’s Day provided a superficial placeholder in lieu of policies that actually would benefit mothers.
A good workaround is to use an image placeholder where the video would normally load.
It listed a potential offering size of $1 billion, a placeholder that will likely change.
The company has included a standard $100M placeholder for the amount they intend to raise for the event, and that will almost certainly change.
Those numbers are not the opening prices of the stock, but rather placeholders based on private-market trading, and act as jumping-off points.
The Defense Department has set aside $79 billion for OCO for the next fiscal year, the same placeholder amount as this one.
That bill is a placeholder to get the House on record while the Senate works on the more detailed legislation, aides said.
Maybe it was being used as a placeholder and never taken out.
Intended to be a placeholder, no one suspected he would do anything of consequence.
Rather than Roman numerals, this appears to be a placeholder to a reference that was not filled in.