Kleene stars

A form of Kleene star — The asterisk, *, used as an operator to concatenate zero or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Kleene star
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Kleene stars. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kleene%20stars

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