A symbol that substitutes for a single character (?) or a series of characters (*) You can use wild cards to search for words or phrases that are similar
An investment that carries no limit, legal or otherwise, as to the yield or return (in other words, there are no regulations as to the yield of a bank's Certificate of Deposit they can issue the CD at whatever rate they desire)
Used as a short cut for specifying all possible elements The asterisk (*) is recognized in most computing systems as the wild card character For example, entering a directory command to search for f* would return all files that begin with f Can be u sed to search for extensions and version numbers as well
A character in a pattern that may match against any character in a target string Some wild card characters may match against many target string characters
symbols that take the place of letters in Boolean searching One example is that you can type the character "+" between two keywords or subject terms instead of the word "and "
If you refer to someone or something as a wild card in a particular situation, you mean that they cause uncertainty because you do not know how they will behave. The wild card in the picture is eastern Europe
A symbol used in searching to represent one or more letters It is most often used to find plurals and other variants of words Commonly used symbols include "?" "*" and "+" See also truncation
If a sports player is given a wild card for a particular competition, they are allowed to play in it, although they have not qualified for it in the usual way. You can also use wild card to refer to a player who enters a competition in this way
Symbols used to designate represent part of a string or string set * represents one or more characters that might match a position in a string value ? represents any single character that might match a position in a string value Examples: * txt represents all files whose name ends with the extension txt ??? txt represents all files whose 3-character file name ends with the extension txt
In the Main Entry field, use ? for a single unknown character and * for many unknowns The ? wildcard is great for crossword puzzle constructors or solvers For example, try p?lo? or c?????nna? The * wildcard helps you do something that is virtually impossible with printed dictionaries: look for all the words that end in a certain way or that contain a certain string of letters For example, try *itor or *ii* Bracketed ranges or collections of letters also work: [b-d]oo[r-t] yields boor, boos, boot, coos, coot, and door while tr[aeiou]p yields trap, trip, and trop
symbols used to indicate "any character" (or sometimes "any word") in a search A good example is using an asterisk at the end of a word ("word*") to retrieve singular and plural variants of that word ("word" or "words") This is also known as truncation, though in some situations you can actually use a wildcard character in other ways (like "* *" to bring up all files in a Unix directory)
A special character used to effectively search an online database or catalog for alternate or variant search terms Characters most often used are asterisks (*) and question marks (?)
The characters '*' and '?' are generic signs and are used as jokers or wildcards (as in a card game) The '?' stands for exactly one character, which may be anything '*' replaces any number of arbitrary characters, even no characters Wildcards are often used in regular expressions For example, the command ls -l bild* lists all files in the current directory that start with "bild" and end with any character(s), even only bild
A symbol used when searching for files or data which represents all files; in DOS, UNIX and PC operating systems, the wild card character '?' will match any single character in this position The wild card character "or" means match any number of any characters
Special characters such as * and ? that can stand in for other characters during text searches in some programs The * wildcard generally means "match any number of characters in this spot," whereas the ? wildcard generally means "match any character in this spot "
The use of wildcards or Truncation is applying a wildcard symbol (usually *) after the first few letters of a word (the "stem") It allows you to accept any variant spellings or word endings, from the occurrence of the symbol forward (E g , femini* retrieves feminine, feminism, feminism, etc ) Truncation tends to works best when the actual stem is longer and the stem itself is not the root to many common words