This term is part of our Unit 15: The Keyboard: Part II vocabulary list. Please note that pronunciations can vary slightly even in the same dialect.
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the character which often means "multiply" in a math equation or "match all" in a regular expression wildcard
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"The programmer could not remember whether to use an asterisk (*) or a percent sign (%) as a wildcard in his SQL regular expression."