wildcard

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.

   “If the character * is acting as a wildcard, then the pattern a*m matches each of the words amalgam, atom and alum.”

2. isim An uncontrolled or unpredictable element.

   “There are several technical wildcards, such as how the larger battery packs--four times larger than those of the Prius--will withstand the rigors of city driving, […]”

3. isim An element, often deliberately concealed, which is withheld for contingency.
4. isim Alternative form of wild card.

   “German wildcard Sabine Lisicki conquered her nerves to defeat France's Marion Bartoli and take her amazing Wimbledon run into the semi-finals.”

5. isim A letter or symbol that substitutes for a generic or poorly identified sound, for example capital C for any or some consonant, or capital V for any or some vowel.
6. fiil To replace or supplement with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values.

   “The unfortunate consequence is that document elements cannot be wildcarded because a schema needs to provide a closed list of possible document elements.”