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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
Places
- String Lake, a lake in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States.
People
- Strings, the nickname of the Swedish musician Robert Dahlqvist
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 cheese, a common name for several different types of cheese
- String bean
- String hopper, in cuisine
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
Groups
- String band, musical ensemble composed mostly or entirely of string instruments, common in bluegrass, jazz, and country music
- Strings (band), a pop rock band from Pakistan
- String Sisters, band
Genres
- String (Thai pop), a genre of Thai pop music
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
- Strings (Arthur Loves Plastic album), an album by Arthur Loves Plastic
- Strings (EP), an EP by Kristin Hersh
- Strings (Strings album), the debut album by Strings
- Strings!, a 1967 album by jazz guitarist Pat Martino
Other 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
Drilling
Fashion
- String bikini
- Thong (clothing), C-string, G-string, V-string
Mathematics
- String graph, an intersection graph of curves in the plane; each curve is called a "string"
- String group, in group theory
Science and computing
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
- 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
- String (C++), a class in the C++ Standard Library
- Strings (Unix), a Unix program for finding character strings in binary files
- Connection string, a string that specifies information about a data source and the means of connecting to it
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
Sports
- String, a series of consecutive wins in baseball jargon
- Strings (tennis), the part of a tennis racket which makes contact with the ball
Transport and navigation
- String transport
- Yaw string, also known as a slip string, a simple device for indicating a slip or skid in an aircraft in flight
Other uses
- Pushing on a string, metaphor
- String bog
- String potentiometer, a transducer used to detect and measure linear position and velocity using a flexible cable and spring-loaded spool
- 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
See also
- All pages beginning with String
- All pages with a title containing String
- Chain (disambiguation)
- Heart Strings (disambiguation)
- Red string (disambiguation)
- Strine (disambiguation)
- String of pearls (disambiguation)
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