Asterisk vs Metacharacter - What's the difference?
asterisk | metacharacter |
Symbol ().
(sports, US) A blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement.
(biology) Alternate of Asteriscus.
(computing) A character used to signify something other than its literal form, such as the asterisk when used as a wildcard.
As nouns the difference between asterisk and metacharacter
is that asterisk is symbol () while metacharacter is (computing) a character used to signify something other than its literal form, such as the asterisk when used as a wildcard.As a verb asterisk
is to mark with an asterisk symbol (*).asterisk
English
Alternative forms
* asteriscNoun
(en noun)- They came into the tournament highly ranked, but with a little bit of an asterisk as their last two wins had been unconvincing.