wildcard
wildcard noun: a character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified. Also the alternative form of wild card.
Noun
wildcard (plural wildcards)
- A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.
- A wildcard character is a symbol that you can use with many DCL commands to apply the command to several files at once, rather than specifying each file individually.1968, Digital Equipment Corporation, VAX/VMS 319(5864), page 751, Section 2.1.2 Using Wildcard Characters
- If the character * is acting as a wildcard, then the pattern a*m matches each of the words amalgam, atom and alum.
- An uncontrolled or unpredictable element.
- There are several technical wildcards, such as how the larger battery packs--four times larger than those of the Prius--will withstand the rigors of city driving, […]2008 February 8, Eli Kintisch, “From Gasoline Alleys to Electric Avenues”, in Science, 319(5864), page 751
- An element, often deliberately concealed, which is withheld for contingency.
- A letter or symbol that substitutes for a generic or poorly identified sound, for example capital C for any or some consonant, or capital V for any or some vowel.
Verb
wildcard (third-person singular simple present wildcards, present participle wildcarding, simple past and past participle wildcarded)
- To replace or supplement with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values.
- The unfortunate consequence is that document elements cannot be wildcarded because a schema needs to provide a closed list of possible document elements.2002, Eric Van der Vlist, XML Schema, page 183
Also used as
wildcard is also the alternative form of wild card.
wildcard meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
wildcard in Hindi
- वाइल्डकार्ड, वाईल्डकार्ड
wildcard in Marathi
- वाईल्डकार्ड, वाइल्डकार्ड
wildcard in Bengali
- ওয়াইল্ডকার্ড
wildcard in Telugu
- వైల్డ్కార్డ్
More languagesFewer languages
- wildcard in Malayalam
- വൈൽഡ്കാർഡ്
- wildcard in Kannada
- ವೈಲ್ಡ್ಕಾರ್ಡ್
- wildcard in Gujarati
- વાઈલ્ડકાર્ડ, વાઇલ્ડકાર્ડ
- wildcard in Odia
- ୱାଇଲ୍ଡକାର୍ଡ, ୱାଇଲ୍ଡ଼କାର୍ଡ
- wildcard in Nepali
- वाइल्डकार्ड, वाईल्डकार्ड
- wildcard in Persian
- چموش, زیرسبیلی, چمنویسه, نویسه جانشین
Forms of wildcard
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wildcards |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wildcards |
| present participle | wildcarding |
| past participle | wildcarded |
| past | wildcarded |
Origin of wildcard
From wild + card.
Questions about wildcard
- What does wildcard mean?
- Wildcard means a character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.
- What is wildcard in Hindi?
- Wildcard in Hindi is वाइल्डकार्ड, वाईल्डकार्ड. See Wildcard meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is wildcard?
- Wildcard can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of wildcard?
- The plural of wildcard is wildcards.
Words near wildcard in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wildcard (page history and authors); wildcard (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wildcard (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wildcard (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wildcard (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wildcard (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wildcard (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wildcard (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wildcard (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wildcard (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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