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Kleene star
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English
Etymology
After Stephen Cole Kleene (1909-1994), American mathematician.
Noun
en logic computing theory The asterisk, *, used as an operator to concatenate zero or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions.
en Kleene operator
en Kleene plus
Translations
Bulgarian: bg звезда на Клини f
Finnish: fi Kleenen tähti
French: fr étoile de Kleene f
See also
en Kleene closure
en star height
en eponyms
en Regular expressions