kleene closure

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kleene closure - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Kleene star
  Kleene closure
  
     <text> (Or "Kleene closure", named after Stephen Kleene) The
     postfix "*" operator used in regular expressions,
     Extended Backus-Naur Form, and similar formalisms to specify
     a match for zero or more occurrences of the preceding
     expression.  For example, the regular expression "be*t" would
     match the string "bt", "bet", "beet", "beeeeet", and so on.
  
     (2000-07-26)