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The name of the star on a PC keyboard is commonly known as the "asterisk."
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() is not an asterisk. It is a pair of rounded brackets called parentheses. An asterisk is this symbol *.Asterisk comes from the Latin word "asteriscus" and and the Ancient Greek word "asteriskos" which means "little star". It is called this because an asterisk resembles a typical star.
The word asterisk is a noun. It is the name of the symbol. The symbol itself (*) is just that, a symbol.
The asterisk is a special character and cannot be used in the names of any kind of file.
* an asterisk
An asterisk.
An asterisc is an alternative name for an asterisk, the symbol *
* an asterisk
Because an asterisk is designated as a wild card search character in database systems.