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Metacharacter
Metacharacter
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(computing) A
character
used to signify something other than its literal form, such as the
asterisk
when used as a
wildcard
.
noun
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Origin of metacharacter
meta-
+
character
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metacharacters
variation-selector
escape character
back·slash
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