Asterisk (disambiguation)

Asterisk is the star-shaped punctuation symbol (*), typed using Shift+8 on most English-language computer keyboards.

Asterisk may also refer to:

• * in human genetics, a designation that indicates that one belongs to a haplogroup, but not to a known subclade
• Asterisk , a liturgical implement used in the Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches
• Asterisk , an open source telephone system
• asterism, a group of three asterisks arranged in a triangular formation ()
• " Asterisk", a song by Orange Range
• "*", a song by M83
• "*", a song by Sadist from Lego
• Not out in cricket, shown by the symbol *
• A reference to a tainted sports record (see Roger Maris)
• Star , a fuzzy number often denoted by * or *1.

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