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Definition of Boilerplate
1. Noun. Standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories.
2. Noun. Thick plate iron used in the production of boilers.
Definition of Boilerplate
1. Adjective. Describing text of a standard or routine nature. ¹
2. Adjective. Used to describe a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures. ¹
3. Noun. A sheet of steel used in the construction of a boiler. ¹
4. Noun. Standard text or program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor; text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boilerplate
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boilerplate
Literary usage of Boilerplate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Market Access After the Uruguay Round: Investment, Competition and by Pierre Sauvé, Americo Beviglia Zampetti (1996)
"... boilerplate items Not covered in the preceding sections are what might be
termed "boilerplate" items. These relate to a number of substantive ..."
2. International Tax Issues Relating to Globalization: Hearing Before the edited by William V. Roth, Jr. (1999)
"Likewise, in assessing whether individual APAs constitute "return information,"
it is not significant that the 1RS has developed certain "boilerplate" ..."
3. Overview of the Third Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-3) edited by D. K. Harmon (1995)
"... and contained boilerplate language irrelevant to the topic (ie, ... boilerplate
language in the topic descriptions, we scored the document vectors ..."
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