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 ''Bravetown'' is a 2015 American independent musical drama film written by Oscar Orlando Torres, and was directed by Daniel Duran in his directoral debut. The film stars Lucas Till, Josh Duhamel and Kherington Payne. The film was released in a l ...

'' (2015 film), an American drama film originally titled ''Strings'' * ''

The String ''The String'' (french: Le Fil) is a 2009 French film with French and Arabic dialogue, directed by Mehdi Ben Attia and made in Belgium and Tunisia. It stars Claudia Cardinale, Antonin Stahly and Salim Kechiouche. Notably, much of the film was ...

'' (2009), a French film

Music

Instruments

String (music) A string is the 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 holds under te ...

, the flexible element that produces vibrations and sound in string instruments *

String instrument String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Musicians play some string instruments by plucking the ...

, 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 A string orchestra is an orchestra consisting solely of a string section made up of the bowed strings used in Western Classical music. The instruments of such an orchestra are most often the following: the violin, which is divided into first ...

, 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 violinists ...

, 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'', 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!'' 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 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 In graph theory In mathematics, graph theory is the study of ''graphs'', which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. A graph in this context is made up of '' vertices'' (also called ''nodes'' or ''points' ...

, 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

STRING 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 anim ...

(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) In computer software, strings is a program in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems that finds and prints text strings embedded in binary files such as executables. It can be used on object files and core dumps. Overview Strin ...

, 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 In computing, a connection string is a string that specifies information about a data source and the means of connecting to it. It is passed in code to an underlying driver or provider in order to initiate the connection. Whilst commonly used for ...

, 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 In drilling technology, casing string is a long section of connected oilfield pipe that is lowered into a wellbore and cemented. The purpose of the casing pipe is as follows: * prevent the collapse of the borehole * prevent formation fluids from ...

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 Well drilling#Drill bits in mechanical drilling, drill bit. The term ...

Production string The production string is a part of an oil well that is composed of the production tubing and other completion components and serves as the conduit through which the production fluid flows from the oil reservoir to the surface through the wellhead ...

Medicine

Brock string A Brock string (named after Frederick W. Brock) is an instrument used in vision therapy. It consists of a white string of approximately 10 feet in length with three small wooden beads of different colors. The Brock string is commonly employed du ...

, an instrument used in vision therapy *

String galvanometer A string galvanometer is a sensitive fast-responding measuring instrument that uses a single fine filament of wire suspended in a strong magnetic field to measure small currents. In use, a strong light source is used to illuminate the fine filament ...

, 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, 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 In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. String theory describes how these strings propagate through space and interac ...

, a popular grand unified theory ** String (physics), one of the main objects of study in string theory **

Black string In general relativity, a black brane is a solution of the equations that generalizes a black hole solution but it is also extended—and translationally symmetric—in ''p'' additional spatial dimensions. That type of solution would be called a bl ...

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 string bog or string mire is a bog consisting of slightly elevated ridges and islands, with woody plants, alternating with flat, wet sedge mat areas. String bogs occur on slightly sloping surfaces, with the ridges at right angles to the directio ...

, 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) In tennis, the strings are the part of a tennis racquet which make contact with the ball. The strings form a woven network inside the head (or "hoop") of the racquet. Strings have been made with a variety of materials and possess varying propertie ...

, 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 Vietna ...

, 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 Evergreen Solar, Inc. was "a fully integrated manufacturer of solar panels producing wafers, cells and panels." On August 15, 2011, the company filed for Chapter 11 reorganization with the intent of selling its assets.Greentechmedia.Evergreen Fil ...

, ribbon made of string * String trimmer, a device for cutting grass and other small plants * Strings, the nickname of the Swedish musician

Robert Dahlqvist Robert Dahlqvist (16 April 1976 – 1 February 2017) was a Swedish guitarist and vocalist best known for his nine-year tenure with the rock band The Hellacopters. He was also the lead singer and lead guitarist for Dundertåget (first known as Thu ...