Kleene star

English

Etymology

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

Noun

Kleene star (plural Kleene stars)

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

Synonyms

Kleene operator

Translations

Translations

Finnish: Kleenen tähti

French: étoile de Kleene (fr) f

See also

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