Crack frequently refers to:
* Crack, a
fracture in a body
* Crack, a
fracture (geology) in a rock
* Crack, short for
crack cocaine
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), 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
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Crack Magazine'', 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, carrack
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 Administrator, system administrators to locate users who may have weak passwords vulnerable to a dictionary attack. Crack was the first standalone password cracker for Unix system ...
, 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, the process of recovering passwords from data stored in or transmitted by a computer system
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Security hacker, cracking a system to gain unauthorized access (sometimes mislabeled as "hacking")
Other uses
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Cracking (chemistry), 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 Repub ...
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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'', a 1945 collection of essays by F. Scott Fitzgerald
* ''Crack-Up'' (1936 film), an American movie
* ''Crack-Up'' (1946 film), an American movie
* ''Crack-Up'' (album), 2017 album by Fleet Foxes
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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)
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Krak (disambiguation)
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