This led to the addition of the number sign (#, sometimes called ' octothorpe ,' ' pound ' or ' diamond ' in this context-' hash ' or ' gate ' in the UK ) and asterisk or " star " (*) keys as well as a group of keys for menu selection: A, B, C and D. In the end, the lettered keys were dropped from most phones, and it was many years before these keys became widely used for vertical service codes such as * 67 in the United States of America and Canada to suppress caller ID.

* top-level Usenet hierarchy, where the asterisk (*) is defined as a wildcard character.

: An asterisk (*) indicates this recording also won Record of the Year.

Items marked with an asterisk (*) also won the Tony Award for Best Play or Best Musical

An asterisk (*) following a listing indicates a work done in partnership with H. Griffith Edwards.

For GOM input is free form with no sequence field and lines may be up to 255 characters long ; lines that start with an asterisk (*) are comments ; and lines that start with a plus-sign (+) are continuation lines.

* Shows with an asterisk (*) were co-produced by Cartoon Network Studios, then an in-house division of Hanna-Barbera.

Other communities and enclaves that exist within a municipality are marked with an asterisk (*) next to the name.

There are 10 – 15 species ; those marked with an asterisk (*) in the list below are not accepted as distinct species by all authorities.

An asterisk (*) denotes an artist / company who no longer records for the label.

Titles preceded by an asterisk (*) are films made for television.

Songs with an asterisk (*) are songs not composed by Barris, yet featured on the recordings:

Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award, while use of a plus sign (+) instead indicates ties ; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.

An asterisk (*) indicates the composition won Song of the Year as well.

This is indicated by an asterisk (*) in the list below.

Note: An asterisk (*) denotes a Bar to the DSO.

The asterisk (*) is generally used as a wildcard to replace a letter or letters.

Like the dagger (†) and double dagger (‡), it is also sometimes used to link to a footnote where the asterisk (*) is already in use on a given page ; however, these usages are declining in favor of numbered footnotes, usually linked by a superscripted and / or square bracketed number.

* Multiplication of two numbers ( computer languages bound to the rudimentary ASCII set often use an asterisk (*) to replace the missing crosses (×) and dots (·))

Initially the British importations were identified on records with ( imp ) or an asterisk (*) added as a suffix to indicate that they were not locally bred.

Plays marked with an asterisk (*) are now commonly referred to as the ' romances '.

Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award ; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.

Typographical devices such as the asterisk (*) or dagger (†) may also be used to point to footnotes ; the traditional order of these symbols is *, †, ‡, §, ‖, ¶.

The point became a giant asterisk ( a la Roger Maris ) following the 2000 presidential elections and the controversy over vote-counting.

The following time complexities are amortized ( worst-time ) time complexity for entries marked by an asterisk, and regular worst case time complexities for all other entries.

An asterisk denotes a following reconstructed ( unattested ) form.

The following is a list of episodes Beaumont penned for The Twilight Zone ( an asterisk indicates that the episode was credited to Beaumont, but ghostwritten by Jerry Sohl ).

When relative expression levels are known, an asterisk following the name indicates an miRNA expressed at low levels relative to the miRNA in the opposite arm of a hairpin.

In 2005, comedian Peter Berner made a documentary called Loaded Dog, which interviewed fourteen selected Australian painters and showed how many times each of them had entered compared with how many times they had been hung as finalists, shown in the following table ( asterisk denotes winners of the main prize ):

Species of Acanthamoeba are distinguished mainly on the form of cysts, and include the following ; those marked with an asterisk are known to cause infections.

A DD statement dealing with in-stream data has an asterisk (*) following the DD identifier.

The following are cited in Keulemans & Coldewey's Feathers to Brush ( unless noted with an asterisk ).

In the table, a portion that may be combined with the following portion, to compensate for the changing number of weeks in the lunisolar year, is marked with an asterisk.

Those species for which hunting regulations have been established at some point during the past 10 years are designated with an asterisk (*) in the following list.

They are noted with an asterisk (*) in the following incomplete list of logographers:

These are marked with an asterisk following philological convention.

The current membership includes the following members, with founding members marked with an asterisk (< nowiki >*</ nowiki >):

Unless referenced otherwise, the following people are named on the school's ex-students website ( people indicated with an asterisk are from Part-Time Schools ):

This same committee also ruled that Roger Maris is the one and only single season home run record holder, overturning the 1961 decision of former commissioner Ford Frick that Maris and Ruth's home run totals should be listed side-by-side for 154 and 162 game seasons ( contrary to popular belief, Frick never mentioned using an asterisk ).

* In some graphical user interfaces an asterisk is pre-or appended to the current working document name shown in a window's title bar to indicate that unsaved changes exist.

* In the Perl programming language, the asterisk is used to refer to the typeglob of all variables with a given name.

The campaign, whose logo uses a heavy asterisk, first launched in 2008 under the name Don't Be An Asterisk.

The system was further refined by his student Aristophanes of Byzantium, who first introduced the asterisk and used a symbol resembling a ⊤ for an obelus ; and finally by Aristophanes ' student, in turn, Aristarchus, from whom they earned the name of ' Aristarchian symbols '.

This excerpt changes the " class " of myObject at runtime by changing the value associated with the ' parent *' slot ( the asterisk is part of the slot name, but not the corresponding messages ).

* Bug Boy is a popular term in the USA for an apprentice rider, so named because the asterisk in the racing program after an apprentice jockey's name resembles a bug.

An apprentice jockey is known as a " bug boy " because the asterisk that follows the name in the program looks like a bug.

Those with an asterisk (*) after their name have been recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations up to the end of 1999.

Art director Richard Tracy changed the name to " Q-bert ", and the dash was later changed to an asterisk.

In retrospect, Davis wished the asterisk was changed to a different character ; the asterisk prevented the name from becoming a common crossword term and it is a wildcard character for search engines.

Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the work's name have won the award ; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list.

Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award, while use of a plus sign (+) instead indicates ties ; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.

Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award, while use of a plus sign (+) instead indicates ties ; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.

Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award ; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.

Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award ; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.

Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award ; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.

Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the artist's name have won the award ; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list.

Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the artist's name have won the award ; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list.