Look up: Asterisk

1. asterisk
   (character) '*' ASCII code 42. Common names include: star; 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. Often doubled, as in 'x**2', to mean 'to the pow...
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2. asterisk
   the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters) 
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3. asterisk
   [n] - a star-shaped character * used in printing
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4. Asterisk
   As'ter·isk noun [ Latin asteriscus , Greek ..., 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...
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5. asterisk
   star noun a star-shaped character * used in printing
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6. Asterisk
   • (n.) 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.
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7. asterisk
   Starlike punctuation mark (*) used to link the asterisked word with a footnote at the bottom of a page, and in place of certain letters in a word (usually a taboo word)
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8. Asterisk
   An `asterisk` (`*`; ἀστερίσκος-->, asteriskos, or "astress") is a typographical symbol or glyph. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often pronounce it as `star` (as, for examp...
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9. Asterisk
   (PBX) `Asterisk` is a software implementation of a telephone private branch exchange (PBX); it was created in 1999 by Mark Spencer of Digium. Like any PBX, it allows attached telephones to make calls to one another, and to connect to other telephone services including the public switched tele...
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10. Asterisk
    (song) is the 10th single from Orange Range. It was used as the first opening to the anime Bleach. This song stayed on the top 20 in Japan for 22 weeks and spent most of it at number one. This became the number four single of 2005 --> and the number one single of the year from Orange R...
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