Kleene closure

Etymology
Named in honor of (1909–1994), an American mathematician. The &ldquo;closure&rdquo; part comes from the fact that a Kleene closure is closed with respect to concatenation; cf. free monoid.

Noun

 * 1)  The set of all strings of finite length made up of elements of a given set. (Then the Kleene closure is said to be of that given set. For a given set S, its Kleene closure may be denoted as $$S^*$$. The Kleene closure includes a string of zero length. Strings are equivalent to ordered tuples but written without the parentheses and commas.)