Crack frequently refers to:
* Crack, a
fracture
Fracture is the separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress. The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces within the solid. If a displa ...
in a body
* Crack, a
fracture (geology)
A fracture is any separation in a geologic formation, such as a Joint (geology), joint or a Fault (geology), fault that divides the Rock (geology), rock into two or more pieces. A fracture will sometimes form a deep fissure or crevice in the ro ...
in a rock
* Crack, short for
crack cocaine
Crack cocaine, commonly known simply as crack, and also known as rock, is a free base form of the stimulant cocaine that can be smoked. Crack offers a short, intense high to smokers. The ''Manual of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment'' calls ...
Crack may also refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media
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''Cracks'' (film), a 2009 independent thriller
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Crack Movement, a Mexican literary movement
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Crack (band)
Crack was a Spanish progressive rock group in the late 1970s. ''Si Todo Hiciera Crack'' was their only album released in 1979 by the record label
A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, ...
, a Spanish progressive rock group
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''Crack'' (album), an album by Z-RO
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''Cracks'' (album), an album by Nabiha
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The Crack
''The Crack'' is the debut album by English punk rock band The Ruts, released in 1979.
The album contains the UK hit singles "Babylon's Burning" (number seven on the UK chart in June 1979) and "Something That I Said" (number 29 in September ...
'', first album by The Ruts
* ''
Crack Magazine
''Crack'' is a monthly independent music and culture magazine distributed across Europe.
Founded in Bristol in the UK in 2009, the magazine has featured Björk, MF Doom, Lil Yachty, FKA twigs, Gorillaz and Queens of the Stone Age on the cover. T ...
'', a UK-based European music and culture monthly
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''The Crack'' (magazine), a free culture magazine covering the North East of England
Slang
* Crack, slang for
intergluteal cleft
The intergluteal cleft or just gluteal cleft, also known by a number of synonyms, including natal cleft, butt crack, and cluneal cleft, is the groove between the buttocks that runs from just below the sacrum to the perineum, so named because it f ...
Gaining entry
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Safe cracking
Safe-cracking is the process of opening a safe without either the combination or the key.
Physical methods
Different procedures may be used to crack a safe, depending on its construction. Different procedures are required to open different safes ...
, the process of opening a safe without the combination or the key
Software
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Crack (password software)
Crack is a Unix password cracking program designed to allow system administrators to locate users who may have weak passwords vulnerable to a dictionary attack. Crack was the first standalone password cracker for Unix systems and the first to int ...
, a UNIX/Linux password hacking program for systems administrators
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Software cracking
Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s) is the modification of software to remove or disable features which are considered undesirable by the person cracking the software (software cracker), especially copy protection featur ...
, a computer program that modifies other software to remove or disable features usually related to digital rights management
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No-disc crack
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A No-disc crack, No-CD crack or No-DVD crack is an executable file or a special "byte patcher" program which allows a user to circumvent certain Compact Disc and DVD copy protection schemes. They allow the user to run ...
, software to circumvent Compact Disc and DVD copy protection
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Password cracking
In cryptanalysis and computer security, password cracking is the process of recovering passwords from data that has been stored in or transmitted by a computer system in scrambled form. A common approach (brute-force attack) is to repeatedly try ...
, the process of recovering passwords from data stored in or transmitted by a computer system
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Security hacker
A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, information gathering, challenge ...
, cracking a system to gain unauthorized access (sometimes mislabeled as "hacking")
Other uses
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Cracking (chemistry)
In petrochemistry, petroleum geology and organic chemistry, cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules such as kerogens or long-chain hydrocarbons are broken down into simpler molecules such as light hydrocarbons, by the breaking o ...
, the process whereby complex organic molecules are broken down into simpler molecules
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Crack spread
Crack spread is a term used on the oil industry and futures trading for the differential between the price of crude oil and petroleum products extracted from it. The spread approximates the profit margin that an oil refinery can expect to make by ...
, the value difference between crude oil and oil products or between different oil products, usually expressed as a per-barrel value
* ''CRACK'', an acronym for 'Children Requiring A Caring Kommunity', now called '
Project Prevention
Project Prevention (formerly Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity or CRACK) is an American non-profit organization that pays drug addicts cash for volunteering for long-term birth control, including sterilization. Originally based in California ...
'
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CRACK International Art Camp
CRACK International Art Camp (CIAC) is a multi-disciplinary art camp arranged every year over several days in Smaran Matshya Beej Khamar, a fish seed farm in Rahimpur, Kushtia, Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Repu ...
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Craic
''Craic'' ( ) or ''crack'' is a term for news, gossip, fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland. It is often used with the definite article – ''the'' craic – as in the expression "What's the craic ...
, or crack, an Irish term for discourse, news, etc.
See also
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CRAC (disambiguation)
''Crac'' is a 1981 animated short film produced, written and directed by Frédéric Back.
Plot
The story follows the experiences of a rocking chair, from its creation from a tree through its time as a member of a Canadian farming family.
Recepti ...
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Crack-Up (disambiguation) Crack-Up can refer to:
* ''The Crack-Up
''The Crack-Up'' (1945) is a collection of essays by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. It includes previously unpublished letters and notes, along with the three essays Fitzgerald originally wrote for ...
*
Cracker (disambiguation)
Cracker, crackers or The Crackers may refer to:
Animals
* ''Hamadryas'' (butterfly), or crackers, a genus of brush-footed butterflies
* '' Sparodon'', a monotypic genus whose species is sometimes known as "Cracker"
Arts and entertainment Films ...
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Cracking (disambiguation)
Cracking may refer to:
* Cracking, the formation of a fracture or partial fracture in a solid material studied as fracture mechanics
** Performing a sternotomy
* Fluid catalytic cracking, a catalytic process widely used in oil refineries for crack ...
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Crak!
''Crak!'' (sometimes ''Crack!'') is a 1963 pop art lithograph by Roy Lichtenstein in his comic book style of using Ben-Day dots and a text balloon. It was used in marketing materials for one of Lichtenstein's early shows. It is one of several ...
, 1963 pop art lithograph by Roy Lichtenstein
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Krack (disambiguation)
KRACK ("Key Reinstallation Attack") is a replay attack (a type of exploitable flaw) on the Wi-Fi Protected Access protocol that secures Wi-Fi connections. It was discovered in 2016 by the Belgian researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens o ...
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Krak (disambiguation)
KMPS (910 AM) is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Hesperia, California and broadcasts to the Victor Valley area. It is owned by El Dorado Broadcasters and airs a Regional Mexican radio format with programming from La X 103.1. KMPS' ...
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