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Asterisk

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

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Nodes254
Edges253
Triples246
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007874
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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

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

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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

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