Kleene star

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Etymology

After Stephen Cole Kleene (1909-1994), American mathematician.

Noun

Kleene star (plural Kleene stars)

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  1. (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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