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✱ ᚕ ٭ 𐠂 𐠀 ★ ✶ ✴ ꙳ ᕯ ⁂ ⁎ ✱ ✲ ✻ ✼ ✽ ❉ ✢ ✣ ✤ ✥ ❃ ❊ ❋ ✺ ＊ ﹡ Translingual * Symbol * asterisk mul alchemy sal ammoniac (6 or 8 point). mul astronomy A star (5 or 6 point). mul internet slang mul :* * encloses an interpretation en I can't see anything! – Hold on a second… *turns the light on mul computing Used as a multiplication symbol; ×. mul regex Used as a wildcard to detect zero or more occurrences of the preceding element. en The string ab*c matches “ac”, “abc”, “abbc”, “abbbc”, and so on. mul mathematics mul algebra Complex or transpose conjugate; conjugate. mul algebra computer science free monoid or Kleene star. en In the language defined by AB*A, each string starts with an A, ends with a distinct A, and between them has zero or more Bs. mul linear algebra functional analysis dual space. mul meteorology snow (6 point). mul particle physics Used to designate a resonance. mul IPA A reserved symbol with no set meaning, that needs to be defined by the transcriber. May be used as a letter or as a diacritic. mul IPA dated Marks proper names that would be capitalized in orthography. en *ɹɔdʒə *kiŋdənz tounmɑˑks ədæptid tə *frenʃ intouneiʃn Rodger Kindon's tone-marks adapted to French intonation linguisticsmul linguistics mul ill-formed mul descriptive _ linguistics Used before a term (such as a word, phrase, or sentence) to show that it is grammatically incorrect, or in some other way ill-formed. mul :** ill-formed en English prepositions come before the associated noun: we say She lives in Rome, not *She lives Rome in. en Roots like *bep- were not allowed in Proto-Indo-European. mul historical _ linguistics Used before or after a term to denote that it is only hypothesized and not actually attested. mul hypothesized When used before a term: that the term has been reconstructed by a linguist, on the basis of comparative method or by comparing other reconstructed terms, as the plausible ancestral form of an existing, attested term in one or more languages. mul :** invented en It is posited that Proto-Indo-European *sneygʷʰos is the etymon of both Latin la nix and English en snow. en His theory of the Proto-Slavic *kъniga being ultimately derived from Chinese, via the middle form *kūinig, reflecting ancient routes of cultural influx from the East, has not gained a firm ground in the Slavicist circles in the last century. When used after a term: that the term is actually attested, but not in the specific inflectional form being mentioned (typically the citation form). en PIE *ḱonk- yielded Vedic śaṅk-ate “worries, hesitates”, as well as pre-Germanic *kank-, whence also Gothic hāhan* “to hang”. When used before a symbol representing a phoneme: that the phoneme is reconstructed on the basis of comparative method. en Proto-Germanic had three unvoiced fricatives: */f/, */þ/, and */h/. When used before a symbol representing a sound value: that the sound value is hypothesized. en Proto-Germanic had three unvoiced fricatives, possibly representing *[ɸ], *[θ], and *[x]. mul music A pointing mark in Anglican chant, which marks a place in the text where an extra breath should be taken, resulting in a brief pause. mul ' : ⋅ — ‖ † Synonyms multiplication symbol mul ×, mul x, mul · Antonyms multiplication symbol mul :, mul /, mul ÷ Coordinate terms multiplication symbol mul +, mul -, mul /, mul %, mul ^, mul :** Derived terms mul :* * encloses text for emphasis astronomy en V*, en Cl* multiplication symbol mul :** wildcard mul :*.* linguistics mul :** Punctuation mark Used to censor sections of obscene or profane words. en Fuck You (CeeLo Green song) F**k You! mul internet slang Used to censor non-offensive words to treat them as insulting or profane. en T*rks, K*rds en wh*te "people" Used in a dictionary or similar work to indicate a cross-reference to another entry. en mul The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar 2nd Oxford w:Oxford University Press 2014 25 https://books.google.com/books?id=1awJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA25 978-0-19-965823-7 analysis The process of breaking up *words, *phrases, *clauses, *sentences, *constructions, etc. into their *constituent parts. Used at the beginning of a footnote, especially if it is the only one on the page, and after a word, phrase, or sentence that this footnote relates to. mul by extension Used at the beginning of a clarifying statement or disclaimer, especially if it is the only one on the page. en https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/us-map.html [United States] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Total confirmed monkeypox/orthopoxvirus cases: 7,102 *One Florida case is listed here but included in the United Kingdom case counts because the individual was tested while in the UK. Monkeypox 2022 U.S. Map & Case Count 2022-08-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20220805053419/https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/us-map.html 2022-08-05 2022-08-05 mul cricket Used to marks a score or statistic that is incomplete, such as the score of a batsman who is (or was) not out. mul chiefly computing Uses especially in computing. Used as a wildcard to denote zero or more characters. en trans* transgender or transsexual mul Internet Used to indicate a field of a form that must be filled out. mul software Placed after a filename to indicate that the file's contents have been modified but not saved. mul Internet slang Used before or after a word to show a correction has been made, chiefly by the same participant. en I'm our of time. / *out mul genealogy Used before a date to denote that it is a birthdate. Used to indicate emphasis, see * *. Used to form a dinkus, * * *, or asterism, ⁂. Usage notes The English names of the mark are en asterisk and en star. In Internet slang, when two or more corrections are made, one may add a * with each correction. en I just got back from Sarcamento / *Sacarmento / **Sacramento Synonyms in censoring mul ■, mul — footnote mul †, ‡, §, ‖, ¶ as wildcard mul % genealogy mul ° Antonyms genealogy mul † / ✝ / + (French) Coordinate terms beginning a footnote mul †, mul ‡, mul **, [numbers] as wildcard mul ? genealogy mul ⚭ / ✕, ⚮, ⚵ (German) grammatically incorrect mul ? in censoring zh × (Chinese), ja ○ (Japanese) * English Symbol en symbol A star. en ur a *! You’re a star! en text messaging Used to replace the sounds /stɑː(ɹ)/ (star) in any word that has this pronunciation or similar. en *t start en *fish starfish en *g8 stargate en text messaging Used to replace censor profanities. en f**k fuck en sh*t shit German Symbol de symbol de nonstandard the de Gendersternchen; Used to separate multiple gendered inflections in gender-neutral writing. de Freund*innen; ein*e Beamt*er*in; Witwe*r friends (of any gender); an officer (of any gender); widow(er) (of any gender) de Alexander Diehl Hamburger Küche: Aal kann – muss aber nicht Die Tageszeitung: taz 2020-02-23 https://taz.de/!5663125/ 0931-9085 Aber genauer besehen sind sie in Hamburg ja Lutheraner*innen, und Luther war das Leibliche so fern nun wieder nicht. But on closer inspection, those in Hamburg are in fact Lutherans [of all genders], and the bodily was not so distant from Luther after all. Usage notes In speech either expanded (de Spieler*in → de Spieler oder Spielerin), or realized with a glottal stop /ˈʃpiːləʁʔɪn/. Issues can arise with some forms, compare: de Freund Freunde m-p, de Freundin Freundinnen f-p → Freund*innen, where the e of the masculine term is dropped and it's not Freunde*innen de Arzt m, de Ärztin f → Ärzt*in, where the umlaut-less A is not present de ein Abgeordneter m, de eine Abgeordnete f → ein*e Abgeordnete*r, where the feminine-like ein*e occurs together with the masculine-like Abgeordnete*r Synonyms de : as in Freund:innen; nonstandard, rare de _ as in Freund_innen; nonstandard de / as in Freund/innen; nonstandard, proscribed de /- as in Mitarbeiter/-innen de () as in Mitarbeiter(innen) (m/w/d) as in Mitarbeiter (m/w/d) capital I in de -in feminine suffix as in FreundInnen; nonstandard, proscribed "gender-neutral", but binary only: de und as in Freunde und Freundinnen de männlich und weiblich as in männliche und weibliche Freunde de beiderlei Geschlechts as in Freunde beiderlei Geschlechts (m/w) as in Freund (m/w)