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
 - 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
 - Strings (rapper), Marinna Teal (born 1975), American rapper
 
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
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
 - Strings (conference), series of conferences on string theory
 
 - String vibration, equations for an ordinary vibrating string
 
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)