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The word '''string''' has a number of rather different meanings in modern English, though they are all related in the sense of denoting something long and thin.
*In common speech, it refers to a textile material, use for such things as wrapping packages. ''Kite string'' is another example.
*In computer software, it is a [[data type]] representing a sequence of characters.
*''[[String theory]]'' is a cutting-edge theory of physics at extremely small scales, postulating that what ordinary quantum mechanics considers to be subatomic particles of size 10<sup>−15</sup> meters are actually closed loops, that is strings, of even smaller size.
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