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kleene star

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English

Syllables
kleene s-tar
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The asterisk, *, used as an operator to concatenate zero or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions.

Etymology

After Stephen Cole Kleene (1909-1994), American mathematician.

Inflected Forms

Kleene stars (plural)

Phrases

Kleene closure star height

Frequently Paired Words

Kleene closure star height Kleene plus

Synonyms

Kleene operator

Questions

What does kleene star mean?
The asterisk, *, used as an operator to concatenate zero or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions.
Where does kleene star come from?
After Stephen Cole Kleene (1909-1994), American mathematician.

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