* is an asterisk, a typographical symbol or glyph. * may also refer to: Art, entertainment, and media "*", a song by M83 "Asterisk" (song) or "*: Asterisk", by Orange Range "*", a song by Sadist from Lego *, the logo for the alternative rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers Other uses *, a symbol for not out in cricket *, a symbol identifying a genetic lineage as a paragroup of a specified haplogroup Star (game theory), the value given to the game where both players have only the option of moving to the zero game *, in linguistics, a symbol that prefixes a word or phrase that, in historical linguistics, is a reconstructed form for which no actual examples have been found Also a hypothetical, deviant, or ungrammatical form *, a symbol in several astronomical notation nomenclatures for abbreviating star *, the symbol is used to refer a reader to a footnote *, the symbol is used to refer a reader to an endnote *, the beginning of a vertical service code in telephony *, the wildcard character in a computer terminal window or terminal or computer programming, representation of any word, words or characters. * (CONFIG.SYS directive) See also Blackstar (album), a 2016 album by David Bowie, stylized as ★ *Star, an abstract strategy game Asterisk (disambiguation) Star (disambiguation) ** (disambiguation)