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2. Strings (tennis) - Wikipedia

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   The strings form a woven network inside the head (or "hoop") of the racquet. Strings have been made with a variety of materials and possess varying properties that have been measured, such as dynamic stiffness, tension retention, thickness (gauge), string texture (shape of the string), and rebound efficiency. [1]

3. Racket (sports equipment) - Wikipedia

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   String choice, both in thickness and material, string tension, string pattern, and string pattern density can have a very large effect on how a racket performs. Throughout most of lawn tennis' history, most rackets were made of laminated wood, with heads of around 65 square inches (420 cm 2).

4. String (structure) - Wikipedia

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   In tennis, the strings are the part of a tennis racquet which make contact with the ball. The strings form a woven network inside the head (or "hoop") of the racquet. Strings have been made with a variety of materials and possess varying properties that have been measured, such as dynamic stiffness, tension retention, thickness (gauge), string ...

5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Stringed instrument tunings

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   String gauges are always listed in the order in which the strings are conventionally numbered, rather than the order in which the pitches are conventionally listed, so for example a typical light set for electric guitar would be .009-.011-.016-.024w-.032w-.042w.

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7. Surgical suture - Wikipedia

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   A #4 suture would be roughly the diameter of a tennis racquet string. The manufacturing techniques, derived at the beginning from the production of musical strings, did not allow thinner diameters. As the procedures improved, #0 was added to the suture diameters, and later, thinner and thinner threads were manufactured, which were identified as ...

8. Spaghetti racquet - Wikipedia

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   Double-strung racquets had some limited precedent in the sport. In 1881, two inventors, George Hookham of Birmingham and Alexander Hodgkinson of Manchester, filed British patents “to increase the effective striking surface in tennis racquets” by having strings “instead of being sunk below the level of the frame as is usual…arranged flush with one edge thereof, or a double stringing, i ...

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