# String

String or strings may refer to:

## 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
** 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

## 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

* 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
** 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