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English
Etymology
After Stephen Cole Kleene (1909-1994), American mathematician.
Noun
Kleene star (plural Kleene stars)
- (logic, computing theory) The asterisk, *, used as an operator to concatenate zero or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions.
- Synonym: Kleene operator
- Coordinate term: Kleene plus
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