English Explanatory Dictionary

Kleene star

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Kleene star Kleene stars

Etymology

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

Synonyms

Kleene operator

Related words

Kleene closure star height
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