Filler

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In general, a filler is something that is used to fill gaps. Specialist meanings of the word "filler" include:

• filler (linguistics), a sound spoken to fill up gaps in utterances
• filler (materials), particles added to a matrix material, usually to improve its properties.
  • Fillers are mostly used in furniture industries to fill the plywood or wooden surfaces prelaminated or laminated, prepolished or polished and on all sorts of woods so that no absorbing pores or minute holes are left open. This is done prior to the application of wood polishes or finishes and wood stains so as to maintain a better look of such surfaces.
• In music, filler notes are added between beats.
• Also in music, a filler track on an album is a track that is deemed not to be a major, standout song, but one to 'fill' the void between two other songs, acting like a link, or to simply get the album up to a reasonable number of total songs.
• filler (media) is material that exists to pad out other material. Generally, filler stories are self-contained and do not affect any ongoing story arcs. This is often done in anime-adaptation of a running manga, which allows the manga artist create enough buffer to prevent an alternate plot (as in Trigun, Hellsing, Naruto, etc).
• Filler is also a term commonly applied to short pieces of information used to 'fill' odd gaps on the printed page of a newspaper or other publication when the main feature falls short of the full page. These can be mini-articles, jokes, cartoons, recipes, poems, usually submitted by freelance writers and often paid.
• Filler (song) by the Hardcore Punk band Minor Threat.

[edit] See also

• Fillér - one hundredth of a Hungarian forint, not in use anymore

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