"star height" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: star heights [plural]
Etymology: From the Kleene star and the idea of nested levels having a "height"; coined in 1963 by Lawrence C Eggan. Head templates: {{en-noun}} star height (plural star heights)
  1. (computing theory) A measure of the structural complexity of a regular expression, equal to the maximum nesting depth of stars in the expression. Wikipedia link: star height Categories (topical): Regular expressions, Theory of computing

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