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An asterisk ( *; from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , ''asteriskos'', "little star")〔("asterisk" ), American Heritage Dictionary 〕〔(ἀστερίσκος ), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus〕 is a typographical symbol or glyph. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often vocalize it as star (as, for example, in ''the A * search algorithm'' or ''C *-algebra''). In English, an asterisk is usually five-pointed in sans-serif typefaces, six-pointed in serif typefaces, and six- or eight-pointed when handwritten. It can be used as censorship. It is also used on the internet to correct one's spelling, in which case it appears after the correct word. The asterisk is derived from the need of the printers of family trees in feudal times for a symbol to indicate date of birth. The original shape was seven-armed, each arm like a teardrop shooting from the center. In computer science, the asterisk is commonly used as a wildcard character, or to denote pointers, repetition, or multiplication. ==Usage== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「asterisk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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