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Kleene star (L∗)

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The Kleene star L∗ of a language L consists of every finite concatenation of words from L, including the empty concatenation.

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The Kleene star, denoted by the symbol \( * \), is an operation in formal language theory and automata theory used to define the set of strings that can be generated by repeatedly concatenating zero or more copies of a given set of strings.
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