String

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String or strings may refer to:

String (structure), a long flexible structure made from threads twisted together, which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects

Arts, entertainment, and media

String (music), the flexible element that produces vibrations and sound in string instruments
String instrument, a musical instrument that produces sound through vibrating strings
- List of string instruments
String piano, a pianistic extended technique in which sound is produced by direct manipulation of the strings, rather than striking the piano's keys

String band, musical ensemble composed mostly or entirely of string instruments, common in bluegrass, jazz, and country music
String orchestra, orchestra composed solely or primarily of instruments from the string family
String quartet, musical ensemble of four string players, common in chamber music ensembles
String section ("the strings"), section of a larger symphony orchestra composed of string musicians

"String", a Monty Python sketch about a marketing campaign for string, appearing initially on their Contractual Obligation Album
String, a character controlled by Marik in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Japanese manga
Silly String, a child's toy, also known as aerosol string

String of a bean, in cooking, is the hard fibrous spine that runs the length of the pod in all but stringless varieties
String bean, a name for several different varieties of bean
String cheese, a common name for several different types of cheese
String hopper, a rice noodle dish

String graph, an intersection graph of curves in the plane; each curve is called a "string"
String group, in group theory

STRING (Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins), a database and web resource of known and predicted protein-protein interactions

String (computer science), sequence of alphanumeric text or other symbols in computer programming
- String (C++), a class in the C++ Standard Library
- Strings (Unix), a Unix program for finding character strings in binary files
- C string handling, a header in the C standard library
- String literal, the notation for representing a string value within the text of a computer program
- Connection string, a string that specifies information about a data source and the means of connecting to it
Deployment environment, one in a series of computing environments in which new software is deployed, either in sequence or in parallel

Brock string, an instrument used in vision therapy
String galvanometer, an instrument that provided the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG)
String sign, a medical term used in diagnosing hypertrophy pyloric stenosis

Cosmic string, a hypothetical 1-dimensional (spatially) topological defect in various fields
Dirac string, a fictitious one-dimensional curve in space, stretching between two magnetic monopoles
String theory, a popular grand unified theory
- String (physics), one of the main objects of study in string theory
- Black string is a higher-dimensional (more than 4-dimensional) generalization of a black hole

Yaw string, also known as a slip string, a simple device for indicating a slip or skid in an aircraft in flight
String bog, a bog consisting of slightly elevated ridges and islands, with woody plants, alternating with flat, wet sedge mat areas
String potentiometer, a transducer used to detect and measure linear position and velocity using a flexible cable and spring-loaded spool

Pushing on a string, metaphor
String of cash coins (currency unit), in the Far East
String Lake, a lake in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States.
String Publishing, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content
String puzzle, any mechanical puzzle whose emphasis is on manipulating one or more pieces of string or rope
String ribbon, ribbon made of string
String trimmer, a device for cutting grass and other small plants
Strings, the nickname of the Swedish musician Robert Dahlqvist
Marik String, former acting Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State