A surname.

A surname.

plural of Kleene star

(logic, computing theory) The asterisk, *, used as an operator to concatenate zero or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions.

(algebra) A De Morgan algebra which also satisfies the inequation x∧∼x⩽y,∨∼y for all x and y, where "∼" here denotes the De Morgan involution.

Synonym of Kleene star

plural of Kleene operator

plural of Kleene algebra

(mathematics, computer science) The set of all strings of finite length made up of elements of a given set. (Then the Kleene closure is said to be of that given set. For a given set S, its Kleene closure may be denoted as S^*. The Kleene closure includes a string of zero length. Strings are equivalent to ordered tuples but written without the parentheses and commas.)

plural of Kleene closure