Kleene star

English

Etymology

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

Noun

Kleene star (plural Kleene stars)

1. (logic, computing theory) The asterisk, *, used as an operator to concatenate zero or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions.

   Synonym: Kleene operator

   Coordinate term: Kleene plus

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: Kleenen tähti
• French: étoile de Kleene (fr) f

See also

• Kleene closure
• star height