stubs

Noun

stub (plural stubs)

1. Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
   • And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
2. A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
   • check stub
3. A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
   • 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.2000, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, John W. McCormick, Programming and Problem Solving with ADA 95, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 352
4. A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
   • The server performs the server RPC runtime library functions to accept the request and call the server stub procedure. […] After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server.2002, Judith M. Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7
5. A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).

   Synonyms:

   sidehead

6. (wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
   • A stub is usually long enough to serve as a quick definition, but too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject (see Figure 4-2).2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 66

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