String - Science, Computers, and Mathematics

Science, Computers, and Mathematics

• String (computer science), sequence of symbols or digits in computer programming
  • String literal, the notation for representing a string value within the text of a computer program
  • String searching algorithm
  • strings (Unix), a Unix program for finding character strings in binary files
  • string (C++), a class in the C++ Standard Library
  • string.h, a header in the C standard library
• Connection string, a string that specifes information about a data source and the means of connecting to it
• 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
• 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 graph, an intersection graph of curves in the plane; each curve is called a "string"
• String group, in group theory
• STRING (Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins), a database and web resource of known and predicted protein-protein interactions