What is "such-and-such"

Usage examples of "such-and-such".

One of the several scanner satellites that monitored the surface of the planet as well as nearspace was reporting the eruption of a flare of light far off to the southwest, coordinates so-and-so, timing such-and-such.

One of the main insights of quantum mechanics is that our predictive power is fundamentally limited to asserting that such-and-such outcome will occur with such-and-such probability.

She is entering it in the chronicles, finally, on the topmost blank page, that on the day such-and-such in the year such-and-such of the Coming Forth great changes came about, for on that day the revered chieftain Taniane resigned her office and with her the chieftainship of ancient days at last was brought to an end for all time, and the first of the kings and queens of the city were chosen, who would preside over all that must be done in the aftermath of the great and terrible war with the hjjks.

But they always talked to them of such-and-such influences of the stars, of the conjunctions of such-and-such planets, which must necessarily bring sickness and distempers, and consequently the plague.

His eyes fell upon the small computer which had searched in the ship's microfiles for data on compounds with boiling points below such-and-such, with absorption coefficients in certain ranges, which had an inhibitive effect upon the formation of certain other substances.

Telling such-and-such a unit to go to this location and repeating that ad nauseum will not work.

On a few occasions, the audio tour indicated that such-and-such an artist had been rejected from various art schools before having the grand vision to put a bunch of poor dumb animals in formaldehyde.

Or worse yet, you get a call from the audio book people wanting to know how to pronounce such-and-such.

More than one lady begged that Miladi Fanny would forgive the shortness of the notice and honour her on such-and-such a night, at ball, or rout, or card-party.

The Golden Comstocks—Roger’s ancestors—had imported the metal from Spain and Thomas Gresham had caused the coin to be minted at such-and-such a weight, and had used some of his rake-off to build Gresham’s College.

Then I got a signed document from Bullock's saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment.

But he had called for it to find, in its memory-banks, an organic compound of such-and-such a crystalline form, such-and-such a diffusion rate, such-and-such a specific gravity, and such-and-such a refractive index.

We must think in terns of Probability-the chance of finding a physical object at such-and-such a place, with a speed of so-and-so-et cetera.

An hour later, you could guarantee, the harbour master, with Teutonic efficiency, would send a message using that day's Enigma settings, warning ships to beware of mines in naval grid square such-and-such.

I can see him having value testifying that these are common techniques employed by the police to override one’s free will, and that I found such-and-such conditions prevailing here, and things of that nature—or maybe group dynamics of a cult.