Look up *, asterisk, splat, or star in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

* is an asterisk, a typographical symbol or glyph.

* may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Other uses

  • *, a symbol for not out in cricket
  • *, a symbol identifying a genetic lineage as a paragroup of a specified haplogroup
  • Star (game theory), the value given to the game where both players have only the option of moving to the zero game
  • *, in linguistics, a symbol that prefixes a word or phrase that, in historical linguistics, is a reconstructed form for which no actual examples have been found
    • Also a hypothetical, deviant, or ungrammatical form
  • *, a symbol in several astronomical notation nomenclatures for abbreviating star
  • *, the symbol is used to refer a reader to a footnote
  • *, the symbol is used to refer a reader to an endnote
  • *, the beginning of a vertical service code in telephony
  • *, the wildcard character in a computer terminal window or terminal or computer programming, representation of any word, words or characters.
  • * (CONFIG.SYS directive)

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