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Answer for the clue "Footnote figure ", 8 letters:
asterisk

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An asterisk ( * ; from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , asteriskos , "little star") is a typographical symbol or glyph . It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often vocalize it as star ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB mark ▪ Titles with graphics are marked with one asterisk , titles with sound with two. ▪ About half of those places are marked by asterisks . ▪ The essences marked with an asterisk are the oils I tend to use more often. ...

Usage examples of asterisk.

Sarah sports an asterisk likewise, which means that I have no idea whose bottom is so well plugged in that picture.

He wiped the flowing vaginal exudate aside, did so again, but the expected asterisk was not to be found!

While Alfred held her legs, George wiped the perineum clean, found the asterisk and pressed it firmly with the ball of his thumb, holding while he counted slowly to ten.

Still it required eight thumps on her asterisk to get her attention, nearly too many.

The Palace program was modified so that only wizards could place an asterisk before their names.

Despite their tendency to underplay their status by not wearing their asterisk, most wizards get annoyed with anyone who pretends to be a wizard.

It was only then that he saw the asterisk at the far end of the column.

He found the asterisk again, this one followed by a few brief lines of sanitized text.

By working backward from other stories in the album, I soon figure out that the asterisks mark the hit-and-runs in which the driver who did the hitting and running was eventually caught.

Those asterisks are there because what she and I did deserves to be set off by itself.

Guide to Signor Mantissa must accord them an asterisk denoting especial interest.

Numbers followed by an asterisk indicate those quatrains Sadiq Hedayat considered most likely to be doubtful products of Omar Khayyam.

I looked at the second asterisked gene, called the Troponin Myglobin gene, which deals with communication.

While Alfred held her legs, George wiped the perineum clean, found the asterisk and pressed it firmly with the ball of his thumb, holding while he counted slowly to ten.

Scots tunes, where he affixes an asterisk to those he himself composed, he does not make the least claim to the tune.