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plural form of wild card
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A competitor or team that is allowed to compete in a tournament despite not reaching the normal standards to qualify for inclusion

Kye Sun-Hui won an Olympic gold medal in Judo, despite being a wild card.

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In card games, a card that can be assigned any value or used to substitute for any needed card
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a character that substitutes for other characters in regular expressions and globbing
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In a query, a symbol that replaces a portion of a word to indicate that other word constructions are applicable
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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
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A character that can be used in a field specification to match on any other character in a specific position (%,)
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Games that use a wild card are called wild card games A wild card is a card that can serve as any other card in making your hand
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a playing card whose value can be determined by the person who holds it
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generic character, character which symbolizes every possible character that could be in its place in identification of file names
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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)
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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
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a team that makes the NFL playoffs by having one of the 3 best records among non-division winners in its conference
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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
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previously defined – NOTE: they may be very positive, very negative, or mixed in effects and impacts
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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 "
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A wildcard is a symbol such as * or ? which is used in some computing commands or searches in order to represent any character or range of characters
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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
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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
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A card that can be played as any value
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A team that has been given a play-off spot because it has the best record among the teams that have not won a division
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a playing card whose value can be determined by the person who holds it an unpredictable factor; "the weather was a wild card
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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
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A special character or character sequence which matches any character in a string comparison
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a team that makes the NFL playoffs by having one of the 2 best records among non-division winners in its conference
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an unpredictable factor; "the weather was a wild card"
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are special symbols that can be used to search for any number of significant characters Similar to DOS wildcards
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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
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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
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Characters in a quote symbol or Dos file name that indicates an undefined, but categorized, value
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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)
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plural of wildcard
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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 (?)
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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
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In Extensible Style Language (XSL), a convention used within patterns to make element-matching easier
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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
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Wildcards are certain things that are repeated several times in a document and are found within the Find and Replace window in Microsoft Word 2000
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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 "
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Symbols such as ? and * used when searching for a particular word Forms part of a MASK
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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
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