1. A standard formulation of legal documents or news stories.
2. Thick plate iron used in the production of boilers.
Recyclable text; a piece of writing or code, such as an organization’s mission statement or the graphics code that prints a software company’s logo, which can be used over and over in many different documents. The size of boilerplate text can range from a paragraph or two to many pages. It is, essentially, generic composition that can be written once, saved on disk, and merged, either verbatim or with slight modification, into whatever documents or programs later require it.