wildcard

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. 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, […]
  3. An element, often deliberately concealed, which is withheld for contingency.
  4. Alternative form of wild card. alt-of,alternative
    — German wildcard Sabine Lisicki conquered her nerves to defeat France's Marion Bartoli and take her amazing Wimbledon run into the semi-finals.
  5. A letter or symbol that substitutes for a generic or poorly identified sound, for example capital C for any or some consonant, or capital V for any or some vowel.
动词 v.
  1. 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.

词形变化

wildcards plural wildcards present,singular,third-person wildcarding participle,present wildcarded participle,past wildcarded past

词源

词源 1
From wild + card.
词源 2
From wild + card.
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