Noun

(en noun)

A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

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(group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

(geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.

A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

(chemistry) A functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule, such as the methyl group.

(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.

(military) An air force formation.

(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.

(computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

(music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

(sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while at the same time not playing teams that belong to other sets in the division.

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Noun

(countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.

* Prior

Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string .

(uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.

(countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.

a violin string

a bowstring

A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.

a string''' of shells or beads; a '''string of sausages

* Gibbon

a string of islands

(countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.

The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive

(countable) A series of items or events.

a string of successes

(countable, computing) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.

(music, countable) A stringed instrument.

(music, usually in plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.

(in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collecively. (compare no strings attached)

no strings attached

(countable, physics) the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics

(slang) cannabis or marijuana

A miniature game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.

The points made in a game of billiards.

A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

(Milton)

A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.

* Francis Bacon

Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.

A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

* Bible, Mark vii. 35

The string of his tongue was loosed.

(shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

(botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.

the strings of beans

(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.

(Ure)

(architecture) A stringcourse.