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Asterisk: History, Usage & Overview

The asterisk (/ˈæstərɪsk/), *, is a typographical symbol that is a stylised image of a star. An asterisk is usually five- or six-pointed in print and six- or eight-pointed when handwritten, though more complex forms exist. Its most common use is to call out a footnote. It is also often used to censor words considered offensive. It is often vocalized as…

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Asterisk topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Usage and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Asterisk.

Related topics
248
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
253
Extracted relationships
246
Concept neighborhoods
30
Bridge connections
253

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Usage · 125 topics
Overview · 104 topics
History · 12 topics
Etymology · 4 topics
Encodings · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

See also
U+203B ※ REFERENCE MARK (komejirushi) U+A673 ꙳ SLAVONIC ASTERISK

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Etymology

History

Usage

Encodings

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Asterisk connects Entity context

The extracted context around Asterisk shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Asterisk → A673, ARABIC FIVE POINTED STARU, ASTERISK OPERATOR, ASTERISKU, ASTERISMU, BALLOON-SPOKED ASTERISKU, BOLD EIGHT SPOKED ASTERISKU, BOLD FIVE SPOKED ASTERISKU, BOLD SIX SPOKED ASTERISKU, CIRCLED ASTERISK OPERATOR, COMBINING ASTERISK ABOVEU, COMBINING ASTERISK BELOW, E002ATAG ASTERISK, EIGHT SPOKED ASTERISKU, EIGHT TEARDROP-SPOKED PROPELLER ASTERISKU, EQUALS WITH ASTERISK, EXTREMELY HEAVY FIVE SPOKED, EXTREMELY HEAVY SIX SPOKED, FE61, FF0A Another extracted example is Asterisk → Also, Black Furies, Blood, Certain, Clanbook, Complete, Complete Divine, Complete Warrior, Darkness, Dragons Third Edition, Dungeons, English, Fist, For, Game, In, In Magic, It, Mark Goodson, MOOs. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Asterisk

Top relations

related to In Unicode · 55
Asterisk → A673, ARABIC FIVE POINTED STARU, ASTERISK OPERATOR, ASTERISKU, ASTERISMU, BALLOON-SPOKED ASTERISKU, BOLD EIGHT SPOKED ASTERISKU, BOLD FIVE SPOKED ASTERISKU, BOLD SIX SPOKED ASTERISKU, CIRCLED ASTERISK OPERATOR, COMBINING ASTERISK ABOVEU, COMBINING ASTERISK BELOW, E002ATAG ASTERISK, EIGHT SPOKED ASTERISKU, EIGHT TEARDROP-SPOKED PROPELLER ASTERISKU, EQUALS WITH ASTERISK, EXTREMELY HEAVY FIVE SPOKED, EXTREMELY HEAVY SIX SPOKED, FE61, FF0A
related to Games · 37
Asterisk → Also, Black Furies, Blood, Certain, Clanbook, Complete, Complete Divine, Complete Warrior, Darkness, Dragons Third Edition, Dungeons, English, Fist, For, Game, In, In Magic, It, Mark Goodson, MOOs
related to Computing · 21
Asterisk → Chat, Dark Knight Monument, Document, Due, For, Global Distribution Systems, HTML, In, In Commodore, In HTML, In Markdown, In Unified Modeling Language, Internet, Kleene, Markdown, Microsoft's CMD, Passenger Name Record, See, Stephen Kleene, This
related to history · 17
Asterisk → Alexandria, Alexandrian Mouseion, Aristarchian, Aristarchus, Aristophanes, Hebrew, Hexapla, Homeric, In, Library, Middle Ages, One, Origen, Samothrace, Sumerian, The, Zenodotus
related to Typography · 17
Asterisk → Another, Asterisks, Ben Zimmer, Bounding, For, In, In English-language, It, Less, One, Other, The, Three, Twitter, Typically, Usually, Wikipedia
See also · 12
Asterisk → Arabic, ArabicAsterism, Chinese, Dinkus, Editors, Japanese, Korean, Punctuation, Triangular, Typographic, Typographical, U+203B ※ REFERENCE MARK (komejirushi) U+A673 ꙳ SLAVONIC ASTERISK
related to Religious texts · 12
Asterisk → Book, British, Common Prayer, Geneva Bible, Haftara, In, In American, It, King James Bible, Leeser Bible, Psalm, Torah
related to Telephony · 10
Asterisk → ASTERISK OPERATOR, For, International Telecommunication Union, On, SEXTILE, The Unicode Consortium, They, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, US, USSD
related to Etymology · 9
Asterisk → Ancient Greek, Because, English Language, However, Late Latin, The, The American Heritage Dictionary, The English, Usage Panel
related to Censorship · 8
Asterisk → Asterisks, For, In, Security Committee Russia, This, UK's Intelligence, Vowels, When

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

used asterisks also example star denote use mark word symbol record one indicate usage many two uses may displaystyle forms

Asterisk relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 246 structured relationships around Asterisk. Examples in this analysis include Asterisk → In Unicode → .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}U+002A * ASTERISK (*, *) and Asterisk → See also → U+203B ※ REFERENCE MARK (komejirushi) U+A673 ꙳ SLAVONIC ASTERISK. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
AsteriskIn Unicode.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}U+002A * ASTERISK (*, *)1.00infobox
AsteriskSee alsoU+203B ※ REFERENCE MARK (komejirushi) U+A673 ꙳ SLAVONIC ASTERISK1.00infobox
Asteriskis awildcard character0.90text
Asteriskis adisplay command to retrieve all or part of a Passenger Name Record.In HTML web forms0.90text
Cinstance ofIn some languages0.80text
MLinstance ofand other languages0.80text
Wolfram Languageinstance ofand other languages0.80text
priceinstance ofthe use of an asterisk superscript indicates that the variable0.80text
outputinstance ofthe use of an asterisk superscript indicates that the variable0.80text
or employment is at its optimal levelinstance ofthe use of an asterisk superscript indicates that the variable0.80text
the question markinstance ofanother symbol0.80text
or both symbolsinstance ofanother symbol0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Asterisk bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Used, Denote and Word. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Asterisk
    • Used
    • Denote
    • Word
    • Many
    • Indicate
    • Symbol
    • Mark
    • Use
    • Uses
    • Forms
    • Linguistics
    • Character
  • asterisk
    • Used
    • Denote
    • Word
    • Many
    • Indicate
    • Symbol
    • Mark
    • Use
    • Uses
    • Forms
    • Linguistics
    • Character
  • stylised image of a star
    • German
    • Symbol
    • Also
    • Symbols
    • May
    • Two
    • Mark
    • Use
    • Example
    • Used
    • Unicode
    • Baseball
  • gender star
    • German
    • Symbol
    • Also
    • Symbols
    • May
    • Two
    • Mark
    • Use
    • Example
    • Used
    • Unicode
    • Baseball
  • kleene star
    • German
    • Symbol
    • Also
    • Symbols
    • May
    • Two
    • Mark
    • Use
    • Example
    • Used
    • Unicode
    • Baseball
  • hodge star operator
    • German
    • Symbol
    • Also
    • Symbols
    • May
    • Two
    • Mark
    • Use
    • Example
    • Used
    • Unicode
    • Baseball
  • star of life
    • German
    • Symbol
    • Also
    • Symbols
    • May
    • Two
    • Mark
    • Use
    • Example
    • Used
    • Unicode
    • Baseball
  • combining asterisk below
    • Used
    • Denote
    • Word
    • Many
    • Indicate
    • Symbol
    • Mark
    • Use
    • Uses
    • Forms
    • Linguistics
    • Character

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Asterisk, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Asterisk with Usage. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Asterisk — Usage · splits 128 ⟂ 126
Asterisk — Overview · splits 149 ⟂ 105
Asterisk — History · splits 241 ⟂ 13
Asterisk — Etymology · splits 249 ⟂ 5
Asterisk — Encodings · splits 250 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Asterisk

Nodes254
Edges253
Triples246
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007874
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Asterisk to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Usage & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Asterisk · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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