Usually means: Threads or fibers twisted together.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word strands:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. strands: Merriam-Webster
  2. strands: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Strands, strands: Vocabulary.com
  4. strands: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. strands: Wiktionary
  6. strands: Dictionary.com
  7. strands: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Strands: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. strands: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. strands: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  11. strands, Strand's, Strands: Wordnik

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strands: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. strands: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. strands: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. STRANDS: Acronym Finder

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  2. K & A glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Strand)

noun:  The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
noun:  (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
noun:  A small brook or rivulet.
noun:  (British dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
noun:  A street.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
verb:  (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
verb:  (transitive, grammar) To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
noun:  Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
noun:  A string.
noun:  An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
noun:  (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
noun:  (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
noun:  (figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
noun:  (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
verb:  (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
verb:  (transitive) To form by uniting strands.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (as "the Strand") A street in Westminster running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street.
noun:  An area surrounding the street in central London, Greater London, England.
noun:  A municipality of Rogaland, Norway.
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