fill-out

Noun

fill-out (plural fill-outs)

1. An option provided as one of a number of possible answers to a question in a form.
   • All moves use the same form, but the fill-outs are different.1955, George Worthington, Factory - Volume 113, page 226
   • This layer is primarily responsible for automatically locating and extracting dynamic data from Web sites, i.e^([sic]) data that can only be obtained by form fill-outs.2000, Hasan Davulcu, Guizhen Yang, Michael Kifer, I. V. Ramakrishnan, “Design and Implementation of the Physical Layer in WebBases: The XRover Experience”, in John Lloyd, Veronica Dahl, Ulrich...
2. An extra car added to a freight train in order to achieve a minimum tonnage.
   • They served the industries located along the tracks, performed such freight-house switching as became necessary, set cars off or put cars on passenger trains when necessary, lined up fill-outs for through-freight trains, made up the locals originating at Idaho Falls, and set cars off and put cars...1936, Awards First Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board
   • When sufficient quantities of these types of freight are not available, cars containing ordinary freight are added as "tonnage fill-outs" to bring the train up to the required minimum tonnage.1937, The Traffic World - Volume 59, page 143
3. Something extra that is added to increase the size of something.
   • All fill-outs should be packed with \p's so nothing will be printed.1955, Report - David W. Taylor Model Basin - Issue 916, page 195
   • She's the main deal, we're just the fill-outs!1958, Brainard Cheney, This is Adam: a novel, page 42
4. The amount by which a star in a binary system extends beyond its Roche lobe.
   • Тheoretical amplitudes of primary minima Аmₛ (transits) versus the mass-ratio for different inclinations and fill-outs.1972, Acta Astronomica - Volumes 22-23, page 108
   • The stars TZ Boo and Y Sex do not have their fill-outs well determined.2012, Interacting Binaries, page 61