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Kleene plus

Kleene plus noun: the plus symbol, +, used as an operator to concatenate one or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions.

Noun

Kleene plus (plural Kleene pluses)

  1. The plus symbol, +, used as an operator to concatenate one or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions.

Forms of Kleene plus

pluralKleene pluses

Origin of Kleene plus

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

Questions about Kleene plus

What does Kleene plus mean?
Kleene plus means the plus symbol, +, used as an operator to concatenate one or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions.
What part of speech is Kleene plus?
Kleene plus is a noun.
What is the plural of Kleene plus?
The plural of Kleene plus is Kleene pluses.

Words near Kleene plus in the dictionary

  1. Kleene closures
  2. Kleene fixed-point theorem
  3. Kleene hierarchy
  4. Kleene operator
  5. Kleene operators
  6. Kleene plus
  7. Kleene pluses
  8. Kleene star
  9. Kleene stars
  10. Kleene's fixed-point theorem
  11. Kleene's recursion theorem

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