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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

Music

Groups

Genres

Instruments and types of groups

  • String (music), the flexible element that produces vibrations and sound in string instruments
  • String instrument, a musical instrument that produces sound through vibrating strings
  • String orchestra, orchestra composed solely or primarily of instruments from the string family
  • 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 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

Albums and EPs

Songs

  • "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
  • "String Theory", a season 4 episode of The Shield

Fashion

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
  • 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

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

Other uses

See also