Crack
Crack or cracking may mean:
- Cracking (chemistry), the decomposition of complex organic molecules into smaller ones.
- Vocal crack, a sharp change in vocal characteristics.
- Crack cocaine, A crudely freebased form of cocaine.
- Cracking knuckles
- Software cracking, the defeating of software copy protection.
- Security cracking, the defeating of security devices in computer networks.
- Password cracking, the process of discovering the plaintext of an encrypted computer password.
- System cracking, the process of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system (typically carried out by a black-hat hacker). Cracking can be defined as the act of entering a computer or computer network by force, where hacking is the doing so by manipulation.
- Cracking codes, a term for cryptanalysis.
- A structural failure mode in material science, metallurgy and mechanical engineering.
- The value difference between a crude oil & oil products (usually per barrel) or different oil products, for instance a mogas crack - the difference between mogas & crude oil.
- An informal meaning of crack may mean the part between the buttocks.
- CRACK, an acronym for Children Requiring A Caring Kommunity. This program based in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, pays drug users money to be sterilized and is now named Project Prevention.
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