stand-in
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- noun
- /ˈstændˌɪn/
- Specialized
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componente simulado
- The software development team needed a stand-in to simulate the messaging service while testing the new application.
So engineers often use energy storage of the components is a very crude stand in for how physically big the components are going to be.
- So engineers often use energy storage of the components is a very crude stand in for how physically big the components are going to be.
- This even made its way into movies as sort of like a stand in for what a true intellectual would be reading.
- Today this Crucible will be my stand in from Mount Doom and I want to see if it can actually melt the One Ring.
- Here's the science that makes applesauce the best stand in for butter, oil, and eggs.
Examples
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So engineers often use energy storage of the components is a very crude stand in for how physically big the components are going to be.
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This even made its way into movies as sort of like a stand in for what a true intellectual would be reading.
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Where do you stand on liberally using acronyms as stand-ins for statistical explanations?
Blog text (23) -
This infiltration of the graphic by the technological occurs as well at that level in which the expressive medium of drawing is taken as the stand-in for the subject him- or herself.
Academic text (2000) -
That last feature makes it unwise to use Silver's model as a straw stand-in for "science," as if the model had been fully specified in a peer-reviewed journal.
Blog text (3) -
For the demo, they used a mock database as a stand-in for the real data source to avoid revealing sensitive information.
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During testing, the developers implemented a stand-in for the payment gateway to ensure the application was functional without processing actual transactions.
Synonyms
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A person or thing kept ready to use as a backup
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Etymology
The word stand-in comes from the phrase stand in, which means 'to take someone's place', and in software it names a simple substitute that 'stands in' for a real part during tests. So a software stand-in is a dummy part or service used to act in place of the real system so the team can test safely.