• "*", a song by M83 (band)
  M83 (band)
  M83 is a musical act by French musician Anthony Gonzalez. It is named after a spiral galaxy, Messier 83. The band was founded in 2001 by Gonzalez and former member Nicolas Fromageau in Antibes, France...
  
  
• "*", a song by Sadist from "Lego" (album)
  Lego (album)
  Lego is the fourth full-length studio album by the Italian progressive death metal band Sadist, released in 2000 by kmg. In this unexpected release, the band loses death vocals altogether, while maintaining hard driving guitars which are still present for a thrash metal background with vocals...
  
  
• *, symbol for not out
  Not out
  In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...
  
   in cricket
• *, symbol identifying a genetic lineage as a paragroup of a specified haplogroup
• *, Star (game theory)
• *, in linguistics
  Linguistics
  Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
  
  , a symbol that prefixes a word or phrase that, in historical linguistics, is a reconstructed
  Linguistic reconstruction
  Linguistic reconstruction is the practice of establishing the features of the unattested ancestor of one or more given languages. There are two kinds of reconstruction. Internal reconstruction uses irregularities in a single language to make inferences about an earlier stage of that language...
  
   form for which no actual examples have been found; and in linguistics of a modern language (see: synchronic linguistics), is judged ungrammatical
  Grammaticality
  In theoretical linguistics, grammaticality is the quality of a linguistic utterance of being grammatically well-formed. An * before a form is a mark that the cited form is ungrammatical....
  
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See also

• "*: Asterisk", a.k.a. "Asterisk (song)", by Orange Range
• Asterisk (disambiguation)
  Asterisk (disambiguation)
  An asterisk is a typographic symbol that has "*" as a typical rendering.Asterisk also may refer to:* Asterisk , a liturgical implement* Asterisk , an open source telephone system* "Asterisk" , by Orange Range- See also :...