* (disambiguation)

is an asterisk, a typographical symbol or glyph.

* may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

• "*", a song by M83
• "Asterisk" (song)
  or "*: Asterisk", by Orange Range
• "*", a song by Sadist from
  Lego
• *, the logo for the alternative rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Other uses

• *, a symbol for not out in cricket
• *, a symbol identifying a genetic lineage as a paragroup of a specified haplogroup
• Star (game theory), the value given to the game where both players have only the option of moving to the zero game
• *, in linguistics, a symbol that prefixes a word or phrase that, in historical linguistics, is a reconstructed form for which no actual examples have been found
  • Also a hypothetical, deviant, or ungrammatical form
• *, a symbol in several astronomical notation nomenclatures for abbreviating star
• *, the symbol is used to refer a reader to a
  footnote
• *, the symbol is used to refer a reader to an
  endnote
• *, the beginning of a vertical service code in telephony
• *, the wildcard character in a computer terminal window or terminal or computer programming, representation of any word, words or characters.
• * (CONFIG.SYS directive)

See also

• Blackstar (album), a 2016 album by David Bowie, stylized as ★
• *Star, an abstract strategy game
• Asterisk (disambiguation)
• Star (disambiguation)
• ** (disambiguation)
• *** (disambiguation)