asterisk

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  1. noun A star-shaped figure (*) used chiefly to indicate an omission, a reference to a footnote, or an unattested word, sound, or affix.
  2. transitive verb To mark with an asterisk.

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  • Realm (If you are using Asterisk as your PBX set this to the word asterisk, if you are using any other IPPBX system, consult your documentation) —  Geek.com
  • I went to the video store today because I wanted to watch a movie tonight to avoid continuing to read "You Can't Go Home Again." * asterisk* I wandered the aisles for about half an hour and nothing, nothing, nothing appealed to me. —  mean ol' meany
  • If the user must enter data into the form field, then the asterisk should be placed within the form label, as shown in figure 3. —  doggdot.us
  • In the Chronicle section, sidenotes marked with an asterisk were added by the editors and are here treated as footnotes. —  A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum
  • 81 For brevity in excelsis the following, from the cemetery at Heidelberg, can hardly be eclipsed Michael Seiler 1805.--1887 Sometimes the asterisk is used by the Germans to denote birth, and the dagger (or cross) for death, thus Hier Risht in Gott Natalie Brethke 1850 ą 1884 CHAPTER XIII VERY OLD GRAVESTONES Although, for reasons already explained or surmised, the gravestones in our burial-grounds seldom exceed an age of 200 years, there has probably been no time and no race of men in which such memorials were unknown. —  In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious
 

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  1. Middle English, from Late Latin asteriscus, from Greek asteriskos, diminutive of astēr, star; see ster-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Late Latin asteriscus, from Greek ἀστερίσ, σ1κος, a little star, an asterisk, used in manuscripts to mark passages, diminutive of ἀστήρ a star: see aster.
 

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