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) A string is the Vibrating string, vibrating element that produces sound in string instruments such as the guitar, harp, piano (piano wire), and members of the violin family. Strings are lengths of a flexible material that a musical instrument ...

, 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 This is a list of string instruments. Bowed * Agiarut (Alaska) * Ainu fiddle (Ainu) * Ajaeng (Korea) * Alexander violin (United States) * Anzad * apache fiddle (Apache) * Apkhyarta (Abkhazia) * Arpeggione * Banhu (China) * Baryton * Bazantar ...

* 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 The term string quartet can refer to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two violinist ...

, 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) Thai pop or T-pop, is a genre of Thai music roughly equivalent to western pop. It emerged in the 1970s–80s, during which it was known as string music ( th, เพลงสตริง), before gaining mainstream popularity during the 1990s and ...

, a genre of Thai pop music

Performers

Strings (band) Strings () was a Pakistani pop/rock band composed of two members, plus four live band members from Karachi, Pakistan. The band was initially formed by four college students—Bilal Maqsood (vocals and guitars), Faisal Kapadia (vocals), Rafiq ...

, 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! ''Strings!'' is the second album by guitarist Pat Martino recorded in 1967 and released on the Prestige label.Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist tradition, he was born in ...

'', 1994 * "Strings", by Shawn Mendes from ''

Handwritten Handwriting is the writing done with a writing instrument, such as a pen or pencil, in the hand. Handwriting includes both printing and cursive styles and is separate from formal calligraphy or typeface. Because each person's handwriting is u ...

'', 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! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuki Takahashi. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' magazine between September 1996 and March 2004. The plot follows the story of a boy named Yugi Mutou, ...

'' Japanese manga * Silly String, a child's toy, also known as aerosol string

Fashion

String bikini The bikini has spawned many stylistic variations. A regular bikini is a two-piece swimsuit that together covers the wearer's crotch, buttocks, and breasts. Some bikini designs cover larger portions of the wearer's body while other designs provide ...

* 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 Idiyappam ( ta, இடியப்பம்/இடியாப்பம், Malayalam: ഇടിയപ്പം), also known as string hopper, ''indiappa'' ( Sinhala: ඉඳිආප්ප), ''noolputtu'' ( ta, நூல்புட்டு, M ...

, a rice noodle dish

Mathematics

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

String group In topology, a branch of mathematics, a string group is an infinite-dimensional group \operatorname(n) introduced by as a 3-connected cover of a spin group. A string manifold is a manifold with a lifting of its frame bundle to a string group bundle ...

, in group theory

Science and technology

Bioinformatics

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(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) In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable. The latter may allow its elements to be mutated and the length changed, or it may be fixed (after creation). ...

, 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 The C programming language has a set of functions implementing operations on strings (character strings and byte strings) in its standard library. Various operations, such as copying, concatenation, tokenization and searching are supported. ...

, 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 In software deployment, an environment or tier is a computer system or set of systems in which a computer program or software component is deployed and executed. In simple cases, such as developing and immediately executing a program on the sam ...

, one in a series of computing environments in which new software is deployed, either in sequence or in parallel

Drilling

* Casing string *

Drill string A drill string on a drilling rig is a column, or string, of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit. The term is loosely applied to the assembled collect ...

* Production string

Medicine

* Brock string, an instrument used in vision therapy * String galvanometer, an instrument that provided the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG) *

String sign String sign, or gastrointestinal string sign (also called string sign of Kantour), is a medical term for a radiographic finding on an upper GI series, in which the patient is given a radio-opaque material, such as barium, to drink. X-rays are then ...

, a medical term used in diagnosing hypertrophy pyloric stenosis

Physics

Cosmic string Cosmic strings are hypothetical 1-dimensional topological defects which may have formed during a symmetry-breaking phase transition in the early universe when the topology of the vacuum manifold associated to this symmetry breaking was not simp ...

, a hypothetical 1-dimensional (spatially) topological defect in various fields *

Dirac string In physics, a Dirac string is a one-dimensional curve in space, conceived of by the physicist Paul Dirac, stretching between two hypothetical Dirac monopoles with opposite magnetic charges, or from one magnetic monopole out to infinity. The gauge ...

, a fictitious one-dimensional curve in space, stretching between two magnetic monopoles * String theory, a popular grand unified theory **

String (physics) In physics, a string is a physical entity postulated in string theory and related subjects. Unlike elementary particles, which are zero-dimensional or point-like by definition, strings are one-dimensional extended entities. Researchers often ha ...

, 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 The yaw string, also known as a slip string, is a simple device for indicating a slip or skid in an aircraft in flight. It performs the same function as the slip-skid indicator ball, but is more sensitive, and does not require the pilot to look ...

, 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 Pushing on a string is a figure of speech for influence that is more effective in moving things in one direction than another – you can ''pull,'' but not ''push.'' If something is connected to someone by a string, they can move it toward themse ...

, metaphor *

String of cash coins (currency unit) A string of cash coins ( Traditional Chinese: , , ; ) refers to a historical Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ryukyuan, and Vietnamese currency unit that was used as a superunit of the Chinese cash, Japanese mon, Korean mun, Ryukyuan mon, and V ...

, in the Far East *

String Lake String Lake is located in Grand Teton National Park, in the U. S. state of Wyoming. The natural lake is located at the outflow of Leigh Lake. A small wetland area is on the northwest side of the lake and is prime moose habitat. A short half mile ( ...

, a lake in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States. *

String Publishing Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, is a German publishing group headquartered in Riga, Latvia. Founded in 2002 in Düsseldorf, its book production is based on print-to-order technology. The company publ ...

, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content *

String puzzle Disentanglement puzzles (also called entanglement puzzles, tanglement puzzles, tavern puzzles or topological puzzles) are a type or group of mechanical puzzle that involves disentangling one piece or set of pieces from another piece or set of piec ...

, 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 string trimmer, also known by the portmanteau strimmer and the trademarks Weedwacker, Weed eater and Whipper Snipper. is a garden tool for cutting grass, small weeds, and groundcover. It uses a whirling monofilament line instead of a bla ...

, a device for cutting grass and other small plants * Strings, the nickname of the Swedish musician Robert Dahlqvist