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String-searching algorithm
A string-searching algorithm, also called string matching or substring search, finds occurrences of a pattern string within a longer text; classic algorithms include Knuth–Morris–Pratt, Boyer–Moore, and Rabin–Karp.
Stringent starvation protein B
Stringent starvation protein B (SspB) is a dimeric E. coli adaptor protein that binds ssrA-tagged incomplete proteins and delivers them to the ClpXP protease, enhancing degradation about tenfold; structurally it adopts an Sm-like fold.
Stringer (journalism)
Stringer journalism: a stringer is a part-time or freelance correspondent, photographer, or videographer who files stories or images for a news outlet per piece, without a staff contract, often locally and in conflict coverage.
Stringer Bell
Russell "Stringer" Bell, fictional character in HBO's The Wire played by Idris Elba; second-in-command of the Barksdale drug organization who takes economics classes, invests in real estate, and is killed by Omar Little and Brother Mouzone in season three.
Stringer Davis
Stringer Davis (James Buckley Stringer Davis, 1899–1973) was an English character actor, husband of Margaret Rutherford, who played the librarian Mr. Stringer in MGM's four 1960s Miss Marple films, a role written for him and absent from Christie's novels.
Stringer Lawrence
Stringer Lawrence (1697–1775) was a British soldier who commanded the East India Company's forces in India from 1748 and is credited as the real founder of the Indian army.
Stringocephalus
Stringocephalus is an extinct genus of large, smooth, subglobular Devonian brachiopods (family Stringocephalidae), type species S. burtini, widespread in Eifelian-Givetian seas of Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America.
Strings
Strings (اسٹرنگز) is a Pakistani pop-rock band from Karachi, formed in 1988 by Bilal Maqsood and Faisal Kapadia, known for 'Sar Kiye Yeh Pahar' and Bollywood hits like 'Yeh Hai Meri Kahani'.
Strings of Life
"Strings of Life" is a 1987 electronic dance track by Rhythim Is Rhythim, the alias of Detroit producer Derrick May, released on his Transmat label.
strip (Unix)
strip is a Unix command-line utility, part of GNU binutils, that discards symbols and debugging information from executables and object files to reduce file size and hinder reverse engineering.
Strip club
Strip club, also called gentlemen's club or sexual entertainment venue: an age-restricted bar where dancers perform striptease. Covers the independent-contractor business model, lap dancing's 1980 origin, zoning, and Washington's 2024 strippers' bill of rights.
Strip Law
Strip Law is a Netflix adult animated courtroom comedy created by Cullen Crawford, premiering February 20, 2026, in which Las Vegas lawyer Lincoln Gumb (Adam Scott) teams with magician Sheila Flambé (Janelle James); canceled after one ten-episode season.
Strip mall
A strip mall, also called a mini mall, is a row of connected shops with customer parking directly before the storefronts and no enclosed walkways between stores.
Strip search phone call scam
Strip search phone call scam: 1994-2004 US hoax calls in which a caller posing as a police officer made fast-food managers strip-search employees; centered on the 2004 Mount Washington, Kentucky McDonald's case and suspect David R. Stewart, who was acquitted.
Strip steak
Strip steak, also called New York strip or Kansas City strip, is a beef steak from the short loin's longissimus dorsi muscle after tenderloin removal; known for firm texture, beefy flavor, moderate marbling, and many regional names.
Strip theory (seakeeping)
Strip theory, also called strip method or slender body theory, is a linear hydrodynamic method for predicting ship motions and wave-induced loads in waves, standard since the 1950s.
Strip-till
Strip-till is a soil preparation method that tills narrow strips where crop rows will be planted, leaving the rest of the soil and residue undisturbed.
Stripchat
Stripchat is a freemium live webcam platform operated by Cyprus-based Technius Ltd, monetized via tips and per-minute private shows. A leading cam site by concurrent models, it was designated an EU VLOP in 2023, lost that status in 2025, and faces DSA proceedings.
Stripe order
Stripe order is an electronic pattern in strongly correlated materials in which doped charges concentrate along domain walls between antiferromagnetic regions, observed only in La-based cuprates.
Stripe, Inc.
Stripe, also known as Stripe.com, is a private financial-infrastructure company founded in 2010 that lets merchants accept cards, bank transfers, wallets, and stablecoins; customers processed $1.9 trillion in 2025.
Striped bark scorpion
Striped bark scorpion (Centruroides vittatus, Say 1821), a Buthidae bark scorpion of the south-central US and northern Mexico; most widespread US scorpion, two dark dorsal stripes, weakly toxic venom, not medically important.
Striped bass
Striped bass (Morone saxatilis, rockfish) is an anadromous Atlantic coast game and commercial fish, overfished but not overfished by fishing per the 2024 ASMFC assessment, with rebuilding targeted by 2029.
Striped hyena
Striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena), a Near Threatened scavenging carnivore from north and east Africa through southwest Asia to India; 25–45 kg, solitary and nocturnal, fewer than 10,000 left.
Striped marsh frog
Striped marsh frog (Limnodynastes peronii), also called brown-striped frog, a large Myobatrachid ground frog of eastern Australia with dark longitudinal back stripes, a repeated 'tok' call, foam-nest eggs, and endangered status in Tasmania.
Striped skunk
Striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis), a North American mephitid carnivore known for its 6-meter musk spray; IUCN Least Concern, stable, ranging southern Canada to northern Mexico, major rabies reservoir.
Stripes (film)
Stripes is a 1981 American military comedy directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray as a cab driver who enlists in the U.S. Army with friend Harold Ramis.
Stripline
Stripline is a planar transmission line in which a conducting strip is embedded between two ground planes inside a dielectric, giving true TEM propagation with little dispersion.
Stripped (Christina Aguilera album)
Stripped (2002) is Christina Aguilera's RCA sophomore album, a 20-track pop, R&B, and rock record with Dirrty, Beautiful, and Fighter; it sold over 12 million copies worldwide, earned five Grammy nominations, and marked her reinvention as Xtina.
Stripped and reallocated Paralympic medals
Stripped and reallocated Paralympic medals are medals vacated for doping or eligibility fraud, including Spain's 2000 basketball team, skier Thomas Oelsner, and discus thrower Vinod Kumar at Tokyo 2020.
Stripped deck
Stripped deck, also called shortened deck: a playing-card pack with low denominations removed, e.g. 36-card Short Deck poker, 32-card skat, 24-card euchre, 48-card pinochle; hand rankings change accordingly.