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1.                 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   asterisk
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      <character> "*" ASCII code 42.  Common names include: star;
      INTERCAL: splat; ITU-T: asterisk.  Rare: wild card;
      gear; dingle; mult; spider; aster; times; twinkle; glob;
      Nathan Hale.
      Commonly used as the multiplication operator and as the
      Kleene star.  Often doubled, as in "x**2", to mean "to the
      power".  In C and related languages, asterisk is used as the
      dereference operator, "*p" meaning "the thing pointed to by
      p".
      (2006-09-10)