stub

Definitions

• Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
• A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
• (computing) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
• (computing) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
• (wikis) A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
• The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
• An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
• (obsolete) A log or block of wood.
• (obsolete) A blockhead.
• A pen with a short, blunt nib.
• An old and worn horseshoe nail.
• stub Stub iron.
• The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.