fill-in

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.

   • 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.
2. 2

   A substitution.

   • 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.
3. 3

   An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse…

   An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.

   • 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.)
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   1. 4

      A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.

      • The main interaction styles supported by Web systems are direct manipulation, menus and form fill-ins.
      • This part tests your writing skills in Spanish, and it consists of three different exercises: paragraph fill-ins, discrete sentence fill-ins, and an essay.
   2. 5

      A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.

      • The following abbreviations are used for all drum solos and fill-ins.
      • Fill-ins usually happen at the end of a four or eight-measure musical phrase.
   3. 6

      Something added to fill a gap.

      • With too many fill-ins the statistical results become dubious.
      • Originally, we'd planned a Basie-type thing, using lots of open rhythm, only without any piano for fill-ins.
      • These bits were fill-ins between what had to be said to carry on life and work and they were constant.
   4. 7

      Something added to increase the size of something

      Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.

      • There was, at that time, a small film producing complex known as Ben Blake Studios where a variety of trailers, commercials, fill-ins, and (yes) screen tests were shot.
      • It is not a gossipy yarn; nor is it a dry, monotonous account, full of such customary 'fill-ins' as 'romantic moonlight casting murky shadows down a long, winding country road'.
      • Thus a film like René Laloux's Fantastic Planet (1973) clearly involves human or humanlike characters—yet the mode of presentation eschews historical fill-ins, and many of the events are hallucinatory rather than realistic.
   5. 8

      A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.

      • Since consumer buying behaviour to obtain staples is different from fill-ins, retailers strategy will also differ.
      • Variety enhancers may have medium to high margins, while the fill-ins will have higher profit margins due to the longer time these items may need to move off the shelf in a retail store.

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