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the tiny star that whispers the truth your sentence didn't want you to hear
means A star-shaped symbol (*) used in writing to flag a footnote, mark an omission, or signal that fine print is coming.
from From the Greek 'asteriskos,' a 'little star' — the diminutive of 'aster,' meaning star (the same root that gives us 'astronomy' and the flower 'aster'). It came into English through Late Latin 'asteriscus,' carrying its tiny celestial shape along the way.
- name origin
- Greek for little star, asteriskos
- ancient use
- marked passages Homer probably didn't write
- sports legend
- Maris's home run record got an infamous asterisk
- footnote duty
- signals fine print that quietly betrays the headline
- keyboard star
- shares its key with the lonely number eight
asterisk in regex — wildcard symbol * matches zero or more characters in regular expressions and pattern matching
asterisk in footnotes — * symbol used in academic and publishing documents to denote footnotes and endnotes
asterisk in passwords — * displayed character masking when typing passwords in web browsers and applications