CR or Cr may refer to:
In business
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Conversion rate
In electronic commerce, conversion marketing is marketing with the intention of increasing ''conversions—''that is, site visitors who are paying customers.
Measures
Conversion marketing attempts to solve low online conversions through opti ...
, in marketing
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Credit Record, in accounting
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Crown Royal
Crown Royal, also known as Seagram's Crown Royal, is a blended Canadian whisky brand created by Seagram and owned by Diageo since 2000. Production of Crown Royal is done at Gimli, Manitoba, while the blending and bottling of the whisky are done ...
, a brand of Canadian whisky
Organizations
Religious organizations
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Celtic reconstructionism
Celtic reconstructionism or CR (also Celtic reconstructionist paganism) is a polytheistic reconstructionist approach to Ancient Celtic religion, emphasising historical accuracy over eclecticism such as is found in most forms of Celtic neopaganism ...
, a form of Polytheism
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Congregation of Clerics Regular of the Divine Providence
The Theatines officially named the Congregation of Clerics Regular ( la, Ordo Clericorum Regularium), abreviated CR, is a Catholic order of clerics regular of Pontifical Right for men founded by Archbishop Gian Pietro Carafa in Sept. 14, 1524. I ...
(Theatines), a Roman Catholic religious order
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Community of the Resurrection
The Community of the Resurrection (CR) is an Anglican religious community for men in England. It is based in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, and has 13 members as of February 2021. The community reflects Anglicanism in its broad nature and is stron ...
, an Anglican religious order
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Congregation of the Resurrection, a Catholic religious order
Other organizations
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Choose Responsibility Choose Responsibility is a non-profit organization in the United States, that promotes public awareness of the dangers of excessive and reckless alcohol consumption by young adults. The main goal is to lower the minimum legal drinking age by educati ...
, a US non-profit addressing alcohol consumption by young adults
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College of the Redwoods
College of the Redwoods (CR) is a public community college with its main campus in Eureka, California. It is part of the California Community Colleges System and serves three counties and has two branch campuses, as well as three additional sit ...
, a public two-year community college in Humboldt County, California, US
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College Republicans, a college branch of the US political party
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Czech Radio
Český rozhlas (ČRo) is the public radio broadcaster of the Czech Republic operating since 1923. It is the oldest radio broadcaster in continental Europe and the second oldest in Europe after the BBC.
The service broadcasts throughout the C ...
, a public radio broadcaster in the Czech Republic
People
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C. Rajagopalachari
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (10 December 1878 – 25 December 1972), popularly known as Rajaji or C.R., also known as Mootharignar Rajaji (Rajaji'', the Scholar Emeritus''), was an Indian statesman, writer, lawyer, and independence activis ...
, Indian politician
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Christina Ricci, American actress
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Chris Rock, American comedian and actor
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Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains the Portugal national team. He is currently a free agent. Widely regarded as one of the greatest p ...
, Portuguese footballer
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Christopher Reeve
Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor, best known for playing the title character in the film '' Superman'' (1978) and three sequels.
Born in New York City and raised in Princeton, New Jersey ...
, American actor
* A
Royal cypher representing a monarch
** Charles Rex (CR / C
IIIR), the royal cypher of King
Charles III
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. He was the longest-serving heir apparent and Prince of Wales and, at age 73, became the oldest person t ...
Places
Countries
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Coral Sea Islands (FIPS country code and obsolete NATO country code CR)
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Costa Rica (ISO 3166-1 country code)
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.cr
.cr is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Costa Rica.
Second-level domains
* .ac.cr - Academic: Universities
* .co.cr - Commercial
* .ed.cr - Education: Colleges, High Schools, etc.
* .fi.cr - Financial institutions such as banks, etc ...
, the top-level domain (ccTLD) for Costa Rica
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Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
Other places
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CR postcode area
The CR postcode area, also known as the Croydon postcode area, is a group of eight postcode districts in England, within ten post towns. These cover parts of southern Greater London and north-east Surrey.
The main sorting office is in Croydon, ...
in south London, UK
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Castle Rock (disambiguation)
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Campbell River (disambiguation), various rivers
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
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Crawford County, Kansas, US
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Province of Cremona, Italy
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Disney's Contemporary Resort, at Walt Disney World
Publications
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''Casino Royale'' (novel), a James Bond novel
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''Comptes Rendus'' (disambiguation), several proceedings of various academic organizations
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Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences'', the proceedings of the French Académie des Sciences, often simply 'Comptes Rendus' or 'CR'
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Consumer Reports'', American magazine
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''Critical Review'' (disambiguation), several publications by this name
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''CR'' (magazine), a magazine published by the American Association for Cancer Research
Mathematics, science, and technology
Biology and medicine
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CR gas
CR gas or dibenzoxazepine (chemical name dibenz 'b'',''f''1,4]oxazepine, is an incapacitating agent and a lachrymatory agent. CR was developed by the British Ministry of Defence as a riot control agent in the late 1950s and early 1960s. A report ...
, dibenzoxazepine
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Calorie restriction
Calorie restriction (caloric restriction or energy restriction) is a dietary regimen that reduces intake of energy from caloric foods & beverages without incurring malnutrition. "Reduce" can be defined relative to the subject's previous intake b ...
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Chemokine receptor
Chemokine receptors are cytokine receptors found on the surface of certain cells that interact with a type of cytokine called a chemokine. There have been 20 distinct chemokine receptors discovered in humans. Each has a rhodopsin-like 7-trans ...
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Complete remission, in oncology
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Computed radiography
* Controlled/continuous release, see
time release technology
Modified-release dosage is a mechanism that (in contrast to immediate-release dosage) delivers a drug with a delay after its administration (delayed-release dosage) or for a prolonged period of time (extended-release R, XR, XLdosage) or to a sp ...
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Creatine
Creatine ( or ) is an organic compound with the nominal formula (H2N)(HN)CN(CH3)CH2CO2H. It exists in various modifications (tautomers) in solution. Creatine is found in vertebrates where it facilitates recycling of adenosine triphosphate ( ...
, a molecule found in myocytes
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Critically endangered species
Computing and telecommunications
* Candidate recommendation, in
W3C recommendations
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Carriage return
A carriage return, sometimes known as a cartridge return and often shortened to CR, or return, is a control character or mechanism used to reset a device's position to the beginning of a line of text. It is closely associated with the line feed ...
, a new line of text in typing and computing
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Challenge-response spam filtering
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Code review
Code review (sometimes referred to as peer review) is a software quality assurance activity in which one or several people check a program mainly by viewing and reading parts of its source code, and they do so after implementation or as an interr ...
, a systematic examination of computer source code during development
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Cognitive radio
A cognitive radio (CR) is a radio that can be programmed and configured dynamically to use the best wireless channels in its vicinity to avoid user interference and congestion. Such a radio automatically detects available channels in wireless spec ...
, an outgrowth of software-defined radio
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Cognitive robotics
Cognitive Robotics or Cognitive Technology is a subfield of robotics concerned with endowing a robot with intelligent behavior by providing it with a processing architecture that will allow it to learn and reason about how to behave in response t ...
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Control Register
A control register is a processor register which changes or controls the general behavior of a CPU or other digital device. Common tasks performed by control registers include interrupt control, switching the addressing mode, paging control, ...
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Card reader
A card reader is a data input device that reads data from a card-shaped storage medium. The first were punched card readers, which read the paper or cardboard punched cards that were used during the first several decades of the computer industry ...
Other uses in mathematics, science, and technology
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Chromium, symbol Cr, a chemical element
* Cr or CR, an improper designation given to astronomical objects in the
Collinder catalog
In astronomy, the Collinder catalogue is a catalogue of 471 open clusters by Swedish astronomer Per Collinder. It was published in 1931 as an appendix to Collinder's paper ''On structural properties of open galactic clusters and their spatial dist ...
of open clusters from Collinder 1–471
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Change request
A change request (aka Change Control Request, or CCR) is a document containing a call for an adjustment of a system; it is of great importance in the change management process.
Purpose and elements
A change request is declarative, i.e. it stat ...
, a document containing a call for an adjustment of a system
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Compression ratio, the ratio of the volume of a combustion chamber from its largest capacity to its smallest capacity
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Concentration ratio
In economics, concentration ratios are used to quantify market concentration and are based on companies' market shares in a given industry. Market share can be defined as a firm's proportion of total sales in an industry, a firm's market capita ...
, in economics
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Conjugate residual method, an iterative numeric method used for solving systems of linear equations
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Complex resistivity (measurement method)
Spectral induced polarization (SIP), or complex resistivity (CR) and also complex conductivity (CC), is a geophysical survey technique and an extension of the induced polarization (IP) method, being itself an extension of measuring the Earth's res ...
, a measurement method in geophysics
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Cosmic rays
Cosmic rays are high-energy particles or clusters of particles (primarily represented by protons or atomic nuclei) that move through space at nearly the speed of light. They originate from the Sun, from outside of the Solar System in our ow ...
Photography
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Camera Raw, an image file raw converter by Adobe
Sports
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Colorado Rockies, a Major League Baseball team
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Cincinnati Reds, another Major League Baseball team
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Colorado Rockies (NHL)
The Colorado Rockies were an American professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL) that played in Denver from 1976 to 1982. They were founded as the Kansas City Scouts, an expansion team that began play in the NHL in the . Th ...
, a former National Hockey League team
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Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains the Portugal national team. He is currently a free agent. Widely regarded as one of the greatest p ...
, footballer
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Commonwealth record in athletics
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Commonwealth record in swimming
Transport
Railways
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Caledonian Railway
The Caledonian Railway (CR) was a major Scottish railway company. It was formed in the early 19th century with the objective of forming a link between English railways and Glasgow. It progressively extended its network and reached Edinburgh an ...
(Scotland)
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Commonwealth Railways
The Commonwealth Railways were established in 1917 by the Government of Australia with the Commonwealth Railways Act to administer the Trans-Australia and Port Augusta to Darwin railways. It was absorbed into Australian National in 1975.
O ...
(Australia)
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Central Railway (India)
Central Railway (abbreviated CR) is one of the 19 zones of Indian Railways. Its headquarters is in Mumbai at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. It has the distinction of operating the first passenger railway line in India, which opened from ...
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Chiltern Railways (England)
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China Railway, or China Railway Corporation, a national corporation in
People's Republic of China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
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Consolidated Rail Corporation
Conrail , formally the Consolidated Rail Corporation, was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeastern United States between 1976 and 1999. The trade name Conrail is a portmanteau based on the company's legal name. It continues to do busin ...
(Conrail), US
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Copper Range Railroad
Roads
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County highway
A county highway (also county road or county route; usually abbreviated CH or CR) is a road in the United States and in the Canadian province of Ontario that is designated and/or maintained by the county highway department. Route numbering can ...
, county road, or county route
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Legislative route (Minnesota)
In the U.S. state of Minnesota, a legislative route is a highway number defined by the Minnesota State Legislature. The routes from 1 to 70 are constitutional routes, defined as part of the Babcock Amendment to the Minnesota State Constitution, pa ...
or constitutional route
Other uses
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Clash Royale
''Clash Royale'' is a free-to-play real-time strategy video game developed and published by Supercell. The game combines elements from collectible card games, tower defense, and multiplayer online battle arena. The game was released globally ...
'', a popular mobile strategy game developed and published by Supercell
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Chart Rulership or Chart Ruler, in astrology
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Comfort room
A toilet is a small room used for privately accessing the sanitation fixture (toilet) for urination and defecation. Toilet rooms often include a sink (basin) with soap/handwash for handwashing, as this is important for personal hygiene. These ro ...
, another name for a public toilet
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Consciousness raising
Consciousness raising (also called awareness raising) is a form of activism popularized by United States feminists in the late 1960s. It often takes the form of a group of people attempting to focus the attention of a wider group on some cause or ...
, in social activism
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Continuing resolution
In the United States, a continuing resolution (often abbreviated to CR) is a type of appropriations legislation. An appropriations bill is a bill that appropriates (gives to, sets aside for) money to specific federal government departments, ag ...
, a type of appropriations legislation in the US
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Cookie Run
''Cookie Run'' (Hangul: 쿠키런; RR: ''Kukileon'', stylized in CamelCase) is a series of online mobile endless running games developed by Devsisters. Inspired by the classic folk tale '' The Gingerbread Man'', the series is set in a world of ...
, a side-scrolling mobile casual video game by Devsisters
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Councillor
A councillor is an elected representative for a local government council in some countries.
Canada
Due to the control that the provinces have over their municipal governments, terms that councillors serve vary from province to province. Unl ...
, a title for a public servant, used in Australia and New Zealand
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Cree language (ISO 639 alpha-2 code CR)
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Critical reading
Critical reading is a form of language analysis that does not take the given text at face value, but involves a deeper examination of the claims put forth as well as the supporting points and possible counterarguments. The ability to reinterpret ...
, a skill measured by the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
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Critical Role
''Critical Role'' is an American web series in which a group of professional voice actors play '' Dungeons & Dragons''. The show started streaming partway through the cast's first campaign in March 2015. Campaign one ended in October 2017 aft ...
'', a ''Dungeons & Dragons'' show
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Critical Role Productions; the associated media production company
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Crore, a number representing 10,000,000 in the Hindu-Arabic numeral system
* Cr$ or ₢, symbol for
Brazilian cruzeiro Brazilian cruzeiro refers to any of four distinct Brazilian currencies:
* Brazilian cruzeiro (1942–1967), worth 1,000 Brazilian réis
* Brazilian cruzeiro (1967–1986), denominated ''cruzeiro novo'' between 1967 and 1970 in the transition from ...
See also
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CRCR (disambiguation) CRCR may refer to:
* CRCR - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994 U.S. album), rock album by ''Pavement''
* CRCR - ''Crete Carrier Corporation'' reporting mark, see List of reporting marks: C
* CRCR - "core-to-core transmission", an interprogram commun ...
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Comptes Rendus (disambiguation)
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