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• noun alchemy The symbol for sal ammoniac.
• noun astronomy A star.
• noun Used at the beginning of a footnote, especially if it is the only one on the page, and after a word, phrase, or sentence that this footnote relates to.
• noun Internet slang, informal Used in pairs around a word or phrase to indicate emphasis; especially, used in plain-text contexts to simulate italics or boldface.
• noun linguistics Used before a term to denote that it is only hypothesized and not actually attested, conveying two distinct notions:
• noun linguistics Used before a term (word, or a sentence or phrase) to show that it is grammatically incorrect, or in some other way ill-formed.
• noun Internet slang Used before or after a word to show a correction has been made; the error being made by the person spelling the said word incorrectly.
• noun computing Used in various computing contexts as a multiplication symbol.
• noun Internet Indicates a field of a form that should be filled out obligatorily.
• noun cricket Marks a score or statistic that is incomplete; for example the score of a batsman who is (or was) not out.
• noun computing Used as a wildcard to denote zero or more characters.
• noun computing Used to denote the Kleene star operation, indicating zero or more repetitions of a subpattern.
• abbreviation text messaging star
• abbreviation text messaging Replacing the sounding /-ɑː(r)/ (star) on any word that has this pronunciation or similar.