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Kleene stars

Kleene stars is the plural of Kleene star.

Meaning of Kleene star

Noun

Kleene star (plural Kleene stars)

  1. The asterisk, *, used as an operator to concatenate zero or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions.
    Synonyms:
    Kleene operator

Questions about Kleene stars

What is Kleene stars the plural of?
Kleene stars is the plural of Kleene star.

Words near Kleene stars in the dictionary

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

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