CRS may refer to:

Organisations

Government related

Career Retention Specialist The Marine Corps Career Retention Specialist is an enlisted Marine who is responsible to the immediate Commanding Officer for all aspects of retention of enlisted personnel in the United States Marine Corps. Military occupational specialty designa ...

, a Marine responsible for enlisted retention in U.S. Marine Corps units * China Reconstruction Society, also known as the Blue Shirts Society, a Fascist clique and secret police or para-military force in the Republic of China between 1931 and 1938 *

Commission of Railway Safety The Commission of Railway Safety is a government commission of India. Subordinate to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the commission is the rail safety authority in India, as directed by The Railways Act, 1989. The agency investigates seriou ...

, rail safety authority in India * Common Reporting Standard, an OECD standard for exchange of information *

Community Relations Service The Community Relations Service (CRS) is part of the United States Department of Justice. The office is intended to act as a peacemaker "for community conflicts and tensions arising from differences of race, color, national origin, gender, gender id ...

, United States Department of Justice branch for CR and civil rights *

Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité The Compagnies républicaines de sécurité (, ''Republican Security Corps''), abbreviated CRS, are the general reserve of the French National Police. They are primarily involved in general security missions but the task for which they are be ...

, the French riot-control force *

Congressional Research Service The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a public policy research institute of the United States Congress. Operating within the Library of Congress, it works primarily and directly for members of Congress and their committees and staff on a c ...

, the public-policy arm of the United States Congress

NGO or commercial

* Catholic Relief Services, an American international humanitarian agency *

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, a nonprofit public agency in the United States * Classic Rock Society, a UK-based organisation to promote classic and progressive rock music * Co-operative Retail Services, a former co-operative society in the United Kingdom * Creation Research Society, a Christian research group which engages in creation science *

Croatian Register of Shipping Croatian Register of Shipping ( hr, Hrvatski registar brodova), also known as CRS, is an independent classification society established in 1949. It is a non-profit organisation working on the marine market, developing technical rules and supervisi ...

, an independent classification society working in the marine market *

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(''Ordo Clericorum Regularium a Somascha''), a charitable religious congregation

Science and technology

Medicine and biology

Cambridge Reference Sequence The Cambridge Reference Sequence (CRS) for human mitochondrial DNA was first announced in 1981. A group led by Fred Sanger at the University of Cambridge had sequenced the mitochondrial genome of one woman of European descent during the 1970s, ...

, used in mitochondrial DNA testing *

Caudal regression syndrome Caudal regression syndrome, or sacral agenesis (or hypoplasia of the sacrum), is a rare birth defect. It is a congenital disorder in which the fetal development of the lower spine—the caudal partition of the spine—is abnormal. It occurs at a ...

, a rare congenital disorder * Chinese restaurant syndrome, purportedly caused by the flavor enhancer glutamate *

Chronic rhinosinusitis Sinusitis, also known as rhinosinusitis, is inflammation of the mucous membranes that line the sinuses resulting in symptoms that may include thick nasal mucus, a plugged nose, and facial pain. Other signs and symptoms may include fever, headac ...

* Congenital rubella syndrome, a disease passed from mother to fetus * Cutaneous radiation syndrome, a syndrome that results from acute radiation exposure to the skin *

Cytokine release syndrome Cytokine release syndrome (CRS) is a form of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) that can be triggered by a variety of factors such as infections and certain drugs. It refers to cytokine storm syndromes (CSS) and occurs when large numb ...

, in immunology *

Cytoreductive surgery Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) is a surgical procedure that aims to reduce the amount of cancer cells in the abdominal cavity for patients with tumors that have spread intraabdominally (peritoneal carcinomatosis). It is often used to treat ovarian can ...

, in cancer treatment

Computer science and engineering

Canada Remote Systems Canada Remote Systems, or simply CRS, was a major commercial bulletin board system located in the Toronto area. It was one of the earliest commercial systems outside the " big iron" companies such as CompuServe or The Source, and survived into the ...

, a now-defunct bulletin-board system based in Toronto *

Carrier Routing System Carrier Routing System (CRS) is a modular and distributed core router developed by Cisco Systems Inc that enables service providers to deliver data, voice, and video services over a scalable IP Next-Generation Network (NGN) infrastructure. In a ne ...

, a large-scale core router * Cluster Ready Services, components of

Oracle Clusterware Oracle Clusterware is the cross-platform cluster software required to run the Real Application Clusters (RAC) option for Oracle Database. It provides the basic clustering services at the operating-system level that enable Oracle Database sof ...

for database support * Cold rolled steel * Commercial Resupply Services, a NASA contract to deliver supplies to space *

Common reference string model Common may refer to: Places * Common, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland * Boston Common, a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts * Cambridge Common, common land area in Cambridge, Massachusetts * Clapham Common, originally com ...

, in cryptography * Computer reservations system (or ''Central Reservation System''), a computerised system used for travel bookings *

Coordinate reference system A spatial reference system (SRS) or coordinate reference system (CRS) is a framework used to precisely measure locations on the surface of the Earth as coordinates. It is thus the application of the abstract mathematics of coordinate systems and ...

, used to locate geographical entities

Other uses

* Camp Rising Sun (New York), an international leadership-program for youth development * Child Rebel Soldier, a hip-hop supergroup composed of Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, and Pharrell * Classroom response system, an interactive teaching tool using "clicker questions" *

Seychellois Creole Seychellois Creole (), also known as kreol, is the French-based creole language spoken by the Seychelles Creole people of the Seychelles. It shares national language status with English and French (in contrast to Mauritian and Réunion Creole, ...

(ISO 639-3 language code), a French-based creole language of the Seychelles * ''

Colorado Revised Statutes The ''Colorado Revised Statutes'' (C.R.S.) are a legal code of Colorado, the codified general and permanent statutes of the Colorado General Assembly. Publication The ''Colorado Revised Statutes'' are revised and published by the Revisor of ...

'', the legal code of Colorado *

Cosmic Ray Subsystem Cosmic Ray Subsystem (CRS, or Cosmic Ray System) is an instrument aboard the ''Voyager 1'' and ''Voyager 2'' spacecraft of the NASA Voyager program, and it is an experiment to detect cosmic rays. The CRS includes a High-Energy Telescope System ( ...

, a spacecraft instrument on the Voyager probe that helped detect the interstellar medium * Consumer Recreation Services, a fictional company which features in the 1997 film '' The Game''

Distinguish from

seeress In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the s ...

, a female prophet {{disambiguation