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

Films

• Strings (1991 film), a Canadian animated short
• Strings (2004 film), a film directed by Anders Rønnow Klarlund
• Strings (2011 film), an American dramatic thriller film
• Strings (2012 film), a British film by Rob Savage
• Bravetown (2015 film), an American drama film originally titled Strings
• The String (2009), a French film

Music

Instruments

• 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

Types of groups

• 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

Genres

• String (Thai pop), a genre of Thai pop music

Performers

• Strings (band), a pop rock band from Pakistan
• String Sisters, band

Recordings

• Strings (EP), an EP by Kristin Hersh
• Strings (Strings album), the debut album by Strings
• Strings!, a 1967 album by jazz guitarist Pat Martino
• "Strings", by Blink-182 from Buddha, 1994
• "Strings", by Shawn Mendes from Handwritten, 2015
• "Strings, Strings", by Gerald Levert from G, 2000

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• "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

Fashion

• String bikini
• Thong, C-string, G-string, V-string

Foods and cooking

• 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

Mathematics

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

Science and technology

Bioinformatics

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

Computer sciences

• 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

Drilling

• Casing string
• Drill string
• Production string

Medicine

• 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

Physics

• 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

Other uses in science and technology

• 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

Sports

• String, a series of consecutive wins in baseball jargon
• Strings (tennis), the part of a tennis racket which makes contact with the ball

Other uses

• 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

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with String 
• All pages with titles containing String
• Chain (disambiguation)
• Heart Strings (disambiguation)
• Red string (disambiguation)
• Strine (disambiguation)
• String of pearls (disambiguation)

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This page was last edited on 26 January 2024, at 19:56