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  2. List of placeholder names by language - Wikipedia

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    Perengano (from the combination of the very common last name of Perez and Mengano). When several placeholders are needed together, they are used in the above order, e.g. "Fulano, Mengano y Zutano". All placeholder words are also used frequently in diminutive form, Fulanito/a, Menganito/a, Perenganito/a or Zutanito/a.

  3. Placeholder name - Wikipedia

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    Placeholder name. Placeholder name on a website. Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable ...

  4. Foobar - Wikipedia

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    Foobar. Foobar being used to show Transclusion. The terms foobar (/ ˈfuːbɑːr /), foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, [1] and others are used as metasyntactic variables and placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation. [2] They have been used to name entities such as variables, functions, and commands whose exact ...

  5. Metasyntactic variable - Wikipedia

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    A metasyntactic variable is something that stands for another piece of text. For example, you should use a metasyntactic variable in the documentation of a function to describe the arguments that are passed to that function. Do not use @var for the names of particular variables in programming languages. These are specific names from a program ...

  6. Category:Placeholder names - Wikipedia

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  7. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name.

  8. Talk:List of placeholder names by language - Wikipedia

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    Dingenot, dimsedut, dibbedut, huddelifut, himstregims and tingest does not all come from the word dims. I removed that claim. "Tingest" obviously comes from the word "ting" (thing) and I seriously doubt "dingenot", "dibbedut", "huddelifut" and "himstregims" would come from "dims". They're likely just made up because of a lack of another word on ...

  9. Wildcard character - Wikipedia

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    Wildcard character. In software, a wildcard character is a kind of placeholder represented by a single character, such as an asterisk (*), which can be interpreted as a number of literal characters or an empty string. It is often used in file searches so the full name need not be typed. [1]