fill-in
/ˈfɪlˌɪn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.64 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
noun
A substitution.
noun
An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
noun
A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
noun
A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
Example Sentences
- "He went in to the Calsag bar to wrangle two fill-ins for the Goldenhoys as ordered."
- "I was a fill-in. What that meant was you rode with each salesperson to learn his route, and then you could actually run his route when he was off or on vacation."
- "All our language is loose: whatever one means to say, all words are fill-ins for other words - as any cursory glance at a dictionary reveals."
- "When a fill-in, aᵢⱼ⁽ˢ⁾ is created in the course of the computation, it may be necessary to make copies of the contents of certain parts of the ALU and CNLU at the ends of these arrays."
- "In practice they are very sparse and generate few fill-ins in the remaining columns."
- "Suppose that there were no fill-ins added in the course of factorization. (This is unrealistic, but we have developed techniques to minimize the number of fill-ins and in practice the number of fill-ins may be relatively small.)"
Etymology
From the verb phrase fill in.