A small radiating star used to flag a footnote or an omission.
Also known as: Star symbol, Footnote mark, Splat
The asterisk points to a footnote, marks a correction or a caveat, and stands in for characters in wildcards and masked text. Its name comes from the Greek for 'little star'.
Refers the reader to a footnote or a qualifying note elsewhere on the page.
Contexts: Software
Signals a caveat attached to a claim — the sense behind describing a record or result as having 'an asterisk against it'.
Contexts: Software
Stands for any sequence of characters in file-name wildcards and search patterns, and masks characters in passwords.
Contexts: Software
Takes its name from the Greek 'asteriskos', 'little star', reflecting its radiating form.
Contexts: Software
A small figure of radiating strokes meeting at a centre point, usually five or six.
The same character. The asterisk is the typographic mark; the glob wildcard is what a shell does with it in a filename pattern.