filler

1. (cosmetic surgery) A dermal filler, a substance injected beneath the skin to restore lost volume.Examples: "A 50-year-old patient will come in, and suddenly, she’s super-skinny and needs filler, which she never needed before."

2. (linguistics) Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.Examples: "'Tis a meer filler; to ſtop a vacancy in the Hexameter, and connect the Preface to the Work of Virgil."; "As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er."

3. (programming) In COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that contains no data relevant to a given context (normally capitalised when in a data division).

4. (horticulture) A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.

5. (forestry, usually in the plural) Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as "coppice under standards".plural-normally

6. (television, music) material of lower cost or quality that is used to fill a certain television time slot or physical medium, such as a music album