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string break

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string break [′striŋ ‚brāk]
(computer science)
In the sorting of records, the situation that arises when there are no records having keys with values greater than the highest key already written in the sequence of records currently being processed.


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It was also the hallmark of an ill-starred but uncommonly interesting account of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, interrupted by a string break on Lisa Batiashvili's Stradivarius, midway through the opening movement.
Be sure to use good quality stringing wire or bead string - nothing is more frustrating than to spend time creating a necklace only to have the string break and your precious beads go flying all over.
The second reason is that if the string breaks you will usually only lose one pearl instead of them all.
 
 
 
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