* (disambiguation)

* asterisk splat star * is an asterisk, a typographical symbol or glyph. * may also refer to: Music "*", a song from the 2000 album Lego by Sadist "*", a song from the 2005 album Before the Dawn Heals Us by M83 "Asterisk" or "*: Asterisk", a 2005 song by Orange Range *, the logo for the alternative rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers Computing and telecommunications Asterisk#Computing In most programming languages, the operator for computing a product — see Multiplication sign Similar notations For an exception, see APL (programming language) Exponentiation In glob-style syntax, the wildcard character representing any (possibly empty) sequence of characters In standard regular expression syntax, the postfix operator for repeating the operand zero or more times In many lightweight markup languages: The prefix and suffix for bold or italics formatting The prefix for an unordered (bulleted) list In Ruby and Python, the prefix operator for expanding an iterable into arguments to a function, or for collecting function arguments into a list — see Asterisk Programming languages In C and some descendants, the operator (between the type and name) for declaring a pointer, and the prefix operator for dereferencing one In Perl, the prefix operator for a typeglob In Common Lisp's "earmuff convention", the prefix and suffix for the name of a special (dynamically scoped) variable A line comment prefix in CONFIG.SYS on PTS-DOS Star key (telephony), the beginning of a vertical service code (VSC) Mathematics Asterisk#Mathematics ∗, star (game theory), the value given to the game where both players have only the option of moving to the zero game *, Kleene star, the postfix operator for repeating the operand zero or more times , the infix operator for the convolution of two functions , the infix operator for the free product of two groups , a suffix operator for the conjugate transpose, or more generally, the Hermitian adjoint *, the suffix operator for a *-algebra, a structure consisting of two involutive rings, where one is commutative, and the other has the structure of an associative algebra over the first *, the suffix operator for a *-autonomous category, a symmetric monoidal closed category equipped with a dualizing object *, the prefix operator for a *-finite set, also called "hyperfinite" *, the suffix operator for the involution of a *-regular semigroup Other uses In cricket, the suffix for not out after a batter's score In population genetics, the suffix for a paragroup of a haplogroup In historical linguistics, the prefix for a reconstructed, ungrammatical, or otherwise hypothetical form In astronomy, often represents a star In typography, used to refer a reader to a footnote or an endnote See also Asterisk Usage Blackstar (album), a 2016 album by David Bowie, stylized as ★ *Star, an abstract strategy game Asterisk (disambiguation) Splat (disambiguation) Star (disambiguation) ** (disambiguation) *** (disambiguation) *= (disambiguation) Special:PrefixIndex/* A* (disambiguation) C* (disambiguation) F* (programming language) i*, a modelling language L*, a learning algorithm outputting a deterministic finite automaton /* and */, the prefix and suffix for a block comment in C-family computer languages