stub

Noun

stub (plural stubs)

1. something blunted, stunted, or cut short
2. a piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes: check stub, ticket stub, payment stub
3. (computing) a placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. ([1], [2], [3]).
   • 1996, Chip Weems, Nell Dale, Pascal:

     Even though the stub is a dummy, it allows us to determine whether the procedure is called at the right time by the program or calling procedure.

4. Neologism: a placeholder article on Wikipedia or other wiki projects, which provides generally rudimentary information about a topic slated for further expansion.
5. (computing) a procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing. ([4], [5], [6])
   • 2002, Judith M Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware:

     After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server.

4 letters in word "stub": B S T U.

Anagrams of stub:

• bust

• buts

• tubs

Words found within stub:

bus but st sub tub us ut uts

• Definitions:
• A temporary implementaion of part of a program for debugging purposes.
• The portion of the deck which has not been dealt.
• (1) A routine placed into a program to provide a common function. (2) A local object that sends a message to a remote object to invoke its associated operation.
• a dummy procedure definition that has a name and parameters but whose body is not yet implemented.
• The client-side programming-language code (concrete C++ class) generated for a particular interface by the IDL compiler. Stub objects are instances of a stub.
• A client-side representation of a remote object that is used to invoke methods on the implementation of the remote object. Defines the interface to the remote object implementation of an object. ...
• A narrow strip of paper usually remaining where a leaf has been cut away.
• A small program routine that substitutes for a longer, possibly remote, program. For example, a stub might be a program module that transfers procedure calls (RPCs) and responses between a client and a server. ...
• The portion of a client or server program that executes the data marshalling and network transportation routines.
• A construct written to a snapshot file as a placeholder for a particular directory clipped by the clipfile, or because the directory was inaccessible.
• A skeleton function (ie, one that performs little or no processing) created to stand in for one function (the target) to allow the testing of a second function that is designed to call the target function. ...
• a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost pull up (weeds) by their roots nub: a small piece; "a nub of coal"; "a stub of a pencil" a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigarette now" clear of weeds by uprooting them; "stub a field" the part of a check that is retained as a record strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object; "She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it's broken" butt: the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
• In electronics, a stub is a calculated length section of transmission line used for impedance matching or to obtain an exact value of capacitance or inductance.

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