"Kleene plus" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Kleene pluses [plural]
Etymology: After Stephen Cole Kleene (1909-1994), American mathematician. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Kleene plus (plural Kleene pluses)
  1. (logic, computing theory) The plus symbol, +, used as an operator to concatenate one or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions. Wikipedia link: Stephen Cole Kleene Coordinate_terms: Kleene star

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