* Eve ( cryptography ), a placeholder name for an archetypal eavesdropper in fields such as cryptography and physics

A metasyntactic variable, in computer science, is a placeholder name or an alias term commonly used to denote an arbitrary thing, or an arbitrary member of a class of things under discussion.

Also, when referring to an example of some person performing a certain action, Perico de los Palotes can also be used as a placeholder for a real name.

* Widget ( economics ), a placeholder name for a manufactured device

The Unknown god was not so much a specific deity, but a placeholder, for whatever god or gods actually existed but whose name and nature were not revealed to the Athenians or the Hellenized world at large.

In 1979 the IUPAC published recommendations according to which the element was to be called ununoctium, a systematic element name, as a placeholder until the discovery of the element is confirmed and the IUPAC decides on a name.

In 1979 IUPAC published recommendations according to which the element was to be called ununseptium ( with the corresponding symbol of Uus ), a systematic element name as a placeholder, until the discovery of the element is confirmed and a name is decided on.

*" Hickville ", a placeholder name for a small, rural community perceived to be populated by hicks or a theoretical remote, small settlement.

* John Barry, used by Australians as a placeholder name, similar to John Q.

It is a recurrent pseudonym and placeholder name in those countries ( especially in legal contexts ).

New Zealanders use the name as a placeholder name for " any town " or to denote a particularly remote rural town.

A. N. Other is either a placeholder name or a pseudonym used by a person wishing to remain anonymous, the former being more commonly encountered.

The name foobar is derived from a common placeholder name used in computer programming.

On the Japanese bulletin board 2channel, the Gundam forums are named Char custom ( シャア専用 ), and the anonymous placeholder for the name is changed to " 3 times more than the usual anonymous " ( 通常の名無しさんの３倍 ), a reference to the " 3 times faster than the usual Zaku " line from the original series.

* John Doe or Jane Doe a name used as a placeholder for an unknown or anonymous person, especially in a legal context

In law school examinations ( and occasionally state bar tests ), a fictional " State of Franklin " is used as a placeholder name for a generic state, often the one in which the property of Blackacre is located.

" Ruritania " is used as the placeholder name of a hypothetical country to make points in academic discussions, much as Alice and Bob are in logic and computing.

can also stand for " name unknown " ( nomen nescio ), a placeholder name roughly equivalent to John or Jane Doe, Thomas Atkins, etc.

) Kohelet Rabba also relates the account of Rabbi Eliezer ( Kohelet Rabba 1: 24 ) in this case some copies mention Yeshu ben Pandera as in the Tosefta passage but others instead read peloni a placeholder name equivalent to English " so-and-so ".

By 300 BC, a punctuation symbol ( two slanted wedges ) was co-opted as a placeholder in the same Babylonian system.

The Babylonian placeholder was not a true zero because it was not used alone.

Thus numbers like 2 and 120 ( 2 × 60 ), 3 and 180 ( 3 × 60 ), 4 and 240 ( 4 × 60 ), looked the same because the larger numbers lacked a final sexagesimal placeholder.

The symbol "•" is a general placeholder for a concretely given operation.

Where " x " is used as a placeholder in order to disambiguate the " I " from the thinking thing.

The terms foobar / ˈfuːbɑːr /, fubar, or foo, bar, baz and qux ( alternatively quux ) are sometimes used as placeholder names ( also referred to as metasyntactic variables ) in computer programming or computer-related documentation.

Despite these actions, he shunned all public photography and had the often-hilarious habit of depicting himself with a placeholder sign for a face.

Aryabhata is often given credit for coming up with the number zero and using it as a placeholder.

* Proxy provides a placeholder for another object to control access, reduce cost, and reduce complexity.

Strangely however, E4 carried subtitles until the placeholder was deleted in September 2002.

The names " John Doe " for males and " Jane Doe " or " Jane Roe " for females are used as placeholder names for a party whose true identity is unknown or must be withheld in a legal action, case, or discussion.

This can be done by including a placeholder feature composed of ellipses, with an indication of the type of feature.

In politics, a stand-in is a placeholder who occupies a seat until an appointment or election can be held to fill the seat.

The novelization depicts this scene from Dooku's point of view: in his final moments, he realizes that Sidious had been using him as a means to engineer the Clone Wars, and as a placeholder for the true apprentice, Anakin Skywalker.

And, it provides compatibility with existing 10BASE-T systems and thus enables plug-and-play upgrades from 10BASE-T. Fast Ethernet is sometimes referred to as 100BASE-X where X is a placeholder for the FX and TX variants.

In the DVD commentary, it is revealed that this was intended as a placeholder, and the writing staff originally intended to change it to something more humorous before shooting, but failed to do so.

As of April 2012 the Neptune Power website is a placeholder with no further announcements.

" The " X " does not refer to any particular person or group of people ; it is simply a placeholder that keeps track of the roles that players play across different relationships.

* An abbreviation of A. N. Other, a placeholder name or pseudonym used by a person wishing to remain anonymous

* Arbitrary unit, a relative placeholder unit for when the actual value of a measurement is unknown or unimportant

The symbol "" is a general placeholder for a properly defined operation.

The idea is related to a placeholder ( a symbol that will later be replaced by some literal string ), or a wildcard character that stands for an unspecified symbol.

A Nick TOO logo was used on the channel until 2004, when MTV Networks decided to no longer customize the feed as Nick TOO ( Nick 2 presently uses an off-air logo that is utilized solely for electronic program guides as a placeholder image ); most television listings thus either show the additional channel under the brandings " Nickelodeon Pacific / NICKP " or " Nickelodeon Eastern / NICKE ".

Guinness ' official placeholder page for the current record is located here.

A functional defined on some appropriate space of functions with norm < ref group =" Note "> The dot in this norm expression is a placeholder for an element of V, e. g. .</ ref > is said to have a weak minimum at the function if there exists some such that, for all functions with < math >

In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum is placeholder text ( filler text ) commonly used to demonstrate the graphics elements of a document or visual presentation, such as font, typography, and layout, by removing the distraction of meaningful content.

The placeholder is the same, but the agenda and topics to be covered vary.