Usually means: Replacing letters with asterisks, censorship.
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We found 8 dictionaries that define the word asterisking:

General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. asterisking: Merriam-Webster
  2. asterisking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. asterisking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. asterisking: Wiktionary
  5. asterisking: Dictionary.com
  6. asterisking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asterisking: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asterisking: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See asterisk as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (asterisk)

noun:  (dated) A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
noun:  The star-shaped symbol *, which is used in printing and writing for various purposes, including to refer a reader to a note at the bottom of a page or in a margin, and to indicate the omission of letters or words; a star.
noun:  Something resembling or shaped like an asterisk symbol.
noun:  (figuratively) Something which is of little importance or which is marginal; a footnote.
noun:  (US, sports, figuratively) A blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement.
noun:  (Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos (or paten) used during the Eucharist to prevent the veil covering the chalice and diskos from touching the host on the diskos.
verb:  (transitive) To mark or replace (text, etc.) with an asterisk symbol (*; noun sense 1.1); to star.
▸ Also see asterisk


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