How to pronounce“wildcard”in English
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Definitions of “wildcard”
A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.
“1968, Digital Equipment Corporation, VAX/VMS 319(5864), page 751, Section 2.1.2 Using Wildcard Characters A wildcard character is a symbol that you can use with many DCL commands to apply the command to several files at once, rather than specifying each file individually.”
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, […]”
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.”