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

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

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
 * List of string instruments
 * 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
 * String Sisters, band

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

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

 * Casing string
 * Drill string
 * Production string

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

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