Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The asterisk, *, used as an operator to concatenate zero or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, computing-theory, engineering, human-sciences, logic, mathematics, natural-sciences, philosophy, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: Kleene operator
Antonyms: none provided
History
After Stephen Cole Kleene (1909-1994), American mathematician.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
