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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Asterisk | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for Asterisk | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Asterisk \As"ter*isk\, n. [L. asteriscus, Gr. [?], dim. of 'asth`r star. See {Aster}.] The figure of a star, thus, [?], used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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asterisk {INTERCAL}: {splat}; {ITU-T}: asterisk. Rare: {wild card}; gear; dingle; mult; spider; aster; times; twinkle; {glob}; {Nathan Hale}. Commonly used as the multiplication operator and as the {Kleene star}. (2000-07-26) | |
