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Branes
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Brane.
p-branes
A point particle is a 0-brane, of dimension zero; a string, named after vibrating musical strings, is a 1-brane; a membrane, named after vibrating membranes such as drumheads, is a 2-brane. The corresponding object of arbitrary dimension p is called a p-brane, a term coined by M. J. Duffet al. in 1988.