Annette Gordon-Reed & Peter S. Onuf, Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination (W.W. Norton & Co. 2016).
In information technology, a boilerplate is a unit of writing that can be reused over and over without change. By extension, the idea is sometimes applied to reusable programming as in boilerplate code. The term derives from steel manufacturing, where boilerplate is steel rolled into large plates for use in steam boilers.
Use 'boilerplate' in a Sentence. The man used a typical boilerplate he found online to create a contract for rental agreement, which he used when renting the apartment. 18 people found this helpful. My friend facilitated the boilerplate text method when he was building his app, so he could reuse this unit of writing over and over.