Hypertext Webster Gateway: "placeholder"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
placeholder
n 1: a person authorized to act for another [syn: {proxy}, {procurator}]
2: a symbol in a logical or mathematical expression that can be
replaced by the name of any member of specified set
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