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How to pronounce “wildcard”
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Pronunciation guide for wildcard
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of wildcard with real speech in context.
- Available examples
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- Real speech example
- Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans 7 minutes, 2 seconds
play is our adaptive wildcard.
- Definition summary
- (computing) A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.
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How to pronounce wildcard
Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans 7 minutes, 2 seconds
play is our adaptive wildcard.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “wildcard”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (computing) A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.
- (also written wild card) An uncontrolled or unpredictable element.
- (also written wild card) An element, often deliberately concealed, which is withheld for contingency.
- (sports, card games) Alternative form of wild card.
- (phonetics, phonology) 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.
- [Verb]
- (computing) To replace or supplement with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values.
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