string
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- noun
- /strɪŋ/
- Specialized
- If String Theory is correct, the Universe possesses nine spatial dimensions, and one temporal dimension.
- string theory
- one-dimensional strings
- string duality
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Watch on YouTubeEven at that point, string theory was shut out.
- Even at that point, string theory was shut out.
- And now that isn't to say that string theory predicted our world.
- We talked about you had brought up string theory earlier.
- One of them is what's known as the string theoretic landscape.
- Chemistry is the molecules that you can create when strings bump into other strings.
- So this is what string theorists usually look at.
- There was a great string theorist named Joe Polchinski.
- I have a string theory, but not the usual kind.
Examples
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The austere beauty of the mathematics persuades many scientists that string theory must be right.
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String theory, multidimensional reality... and matter displacement.
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Even at that point, string theory was shut out.
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Do you know that there is string theory?
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Imagine now a string which is wound.
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The equation of motion of the string is this.
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Yeah, they didn't know the first thing about string theory.
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In more complicated theories, cosmic strings appear where the minimum energy states possess "holes."
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The duality says that the string theory on a particular curved spacetime background maps onto the gauge theory.
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According to string theory, all particles in the universe are made up of tiny vibrating strings.
Synonyms
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A very small thing shaped like a single line that may make up matter and space
Idioms
- Informal
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Say this when you cannot give a clear answer because it depends on things you do not know
Compounds
- Specialized
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An idea that tiny vibrating strings make different particles and forces
- Specialized
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An idea in physics about a very thin, long object in space that has a lot of energy
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A group of musicians in an orchestra who play instruments like violins and cellos
- Informal
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Being too dependent on your parents, especially your mother, so you are not independent
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A group of words written or spoken in a particular order that may not be a full sentence
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A very large low instrument with a deep sound used in orchestras and jazz bands
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A stitch that goes around an opening and pulls the edges together to close it
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An early form of string theory that describes only bosons, a type of particle, and needs 26 dimensions
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An operation that sews the lower part of the womb closed during pregnancy to prevent early birth
- Jargon
An invisible or marked line on a pool table behind which cue balls are placed at game start
- Archaic
A group of four players, two violins, a viola, and a cello, or a piece written for them
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the physics use of string is to see it as a modern name borrowed from 'cord'—scientists used the word for very thin, line-like objects because they imagine them as tiny, flexible cords.