A
string is a thin piece of
fibre which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects. String can be made from a variety of fibres. You can get different kinds, twine for example
A
string is a vibrating cord of metal, nylon, horsehair, or other substance that vibrates to produce a tone in a variety of
musical instruments.
Strings can also refer to the section of an
orchestra or band consisting in stringed instruments. See
string instrument.
In
computer science, a
string is a sequence of certain entities; these are, for example, tokens in a language grammar, states in
automata[?], representations of
DNA, characters (
literal string) or
bits (
binary string[?]).
A
string is a concept in
quantum string theory.