# is a finite relation from to, where the asterisk represents the Kleene star operation.

In programming languages such as Ada, Fortran, Perl, Python and Ruby, a double asterisk is used, so is written as " x ** 2 ".

Many programming languages, and calculators use a single asterisk to represent the multiplication symbol, and it must be explicitly used, for example, is written " 3 * x ".

This system became known as the dagger and asterisk system and is retained in the Tenth Revision.

The transcription of the syllable ( it may not have been pronounced that way ) is listed next to the sign along with Bennett's identifying number for the sign preceded by an asterisk ( as was Ventris ' and Chadwick's convention ).

* The asterisk ( as in ) is often used in programming languages because it appears on every keyboard.

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

If a packet is not acknowledged within the expected timeout, an asterisk is displayed.

Note: an asterisk indicates that a particular sport is included in the Winter Olympic Games, as of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

( The asterisk * is the means commonly used in linguistics to indicate that the example is grammatically unacceptable.

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 ).

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.

The syntax for a label is an asterisk followed by an identifier ( alphanumeric string with alphabetic initial character ).

An asterisk (*; Late, from, asteriskos, " little star ") is a typographical symbol or glyph.

In English, an asterisk is usually five-pointed in sans-serif typefaces, six-pointed in serif typefaces, and six-or eight-pointed when handwritten.

The asterisk is derived from the need of the printers of family trees in feudal times for a symbol to indicate date of birth.

In computer science, the asterisk is commonly used as a wildcard character, or to denote pointers, repetition, or multiplication.

* The asterisk is used to call out a footnote, especially when there is only one on the page.

Typically, an asterisk is positioned after a word or phrase and preceding its accompanying footnote.

In historical linguistics, an asterisk immediately before a word indicates that the word is not directly attested, but has been reconstructed on the basis of other linguistic material ( see also comparative method ).

A double asterisk indicates a form that would be expected according to rule, but is not actually found:

Many programming languages and calculators use the asterisk as a symbol for multiplication.

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 '.

As in the image above, an asterisk or pipe symbol is used to show identity between two columns ; other less common symbols include a colon for conservative substitutions and a period for semiconservative substitutions.

Note that the asterisk is placed above the function symbol to denote the lower adjoint, in contrast to the notation from Erné et al.

Halm claimed to have been able to reconstruct it, proposing that it was * landahlauts ( the asterisk is the standard symbol among linguists for a linguistic form that is proposed but has not been attested ).

Some window managers display an icon or symbol to indicate that the contents of the window have not been saved or confirmed in some way: Mac OS X changes its close icon from an X to a dot ; RISC OS appends an asterisk to the title.

* Splat, a computer science colloquialism for the asterisk symbol

Wherever a trait defined in this dictionary has a MIM number, the number from the 12th edition of MIM, is given in square brackets with or without an asterisk ( asterisks indicate that the mode of inheritance is known ; a number symbol (#) before an entry number means that the phenotype can be caused by mutation in any of two or more genes ) as appropriate e. g., Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease # 312080 is an X-linked recessive disorder.

However, certain websites employ their own symbol to represent a permalink such as an asterisk, a dash, a pilcrow (¶), or a unique icon.

Its name comes from the asterisk symbol, “*”.

* Asteriscus, typographical symbol, an asterisk

The seeder creates a small circular impression, often similar to the asterisk symbol (*) with a hole in the middle.

* Chat Room etiquette calls on one asterisk to correct a misspelled word that has already been submitted.

* In recent years, the asterisk has come into use on scorecards to denote a " great defensive play.

In fact, Major League Baseball had no official record book at the time, but the stigma remained with Maris for many years, and the concept of a real or figurative asterisk denoting less-than-official records has become widely used in sports and other competitive endeavors.

Fans critical of Barry Bonds, who has been accused of using performance-enhancing drugs during his baseball career, invoked the asterisk notion during the 2007 season, as he approached and later broke Hank Aaron's career home run record.

Moreover, by the envelope theorem the optimal value of a Lagrange multiplier has an interpretation as the marginal effect of the corresponding constraint constant upon the optimal attainable value of the original objective function: if we denote values at the optimum with an asterisk, then it can be shown that

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

Annotation: The asterisk * signals that each Ministry have at least a Beamter-Staatssekretär and a parliamentary secretary of state, the last one is not a Beamter, in their employ, the last one of which gets slightly lower wages and has different duties.

The médaille of the Order is an eight-point, green-enameled asterisk, in gilt for commanders and officers, in silver for knights ; the obverse central disc has the letters " A " and " L " on a white enamelled background, surrounded by a golden ring emblazoned with the phrase " République Française.

There are also other graphical variants ; for example, the Charnay Fibula has a superposition of these two variants, resulting in an " asterisk " shape ().

The opening tag ( called begin-comment delimiter ), however, has an extra asterisk, as in.

An asterisk ( * ) in the Building field indicates that the building has been destroyed.

Since 1993 the official Vatican yearbook, the Annuario Pontificio, has included an asterisk behind the title of those nuncios " che ( per ora ) non sono Decani del Corpo Diplomatico " -- " who ( for now ) are not deans of the diplomatic corps.