звёздочка (знак)
звёздочка, символ * символ, используемый в ряде ОС для задания обобщённого имени файла Смотри также: question mark, wildcard character Синоним(ы): star
1. имя существительное 1) звёздочка, маленькая звезда 2) [полиграфическое и издательское дело] знак (*), звёздочка 2. глагол [полиграфическое и издательское дело] отмечать звёздочкой
I. noun Etymology: Middle English, astarisc, from Late Latin asteriscus, from Greek asteriskos, literally, little star, diminutive of aster-, astēr the character * used in printing or writing as a reference mark, as an indication of the omission of letters or words, to denote a hypothetical or unattested linguistic form, or for various arbitrary meanings • asteriskless adjective II. transitive verb to mark with an asterisk; star
"*" ASCII code 42. Common names include: star; INTERCAL: splat; ITU-T: asterisk. Rare: wild card; gear; dingle; mult; spider; aster; times; twinkle; glob; Nathan Hale. Commonly used as the multiplication operator and as the Kleene star. Often doubled, as in "x**2", to mean "to the power". In C and related languages, asterisk is used as the dereference operator, "*p" meaning "the thing pointed to by p".