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What (who) is cracking - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
CRACKING; Crackin'; Cracking (disambiguation)
cracking
1.
You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting. (BRIT INFORMAL)
It's a cracking novel...
= great, brilliant
ADJ: usu ADJ n
2.
If you tell someone to get cracking, you are telling them to start doing something immediately. (BRIT INFORMAL)
Mark, you'd better get cracking, the sooner the better...
PHRASE: get inflects
Cracking
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 cracking large hydrocarbon molecules into smaller molecules
- Cracking (chemistry), the decomposition of complex organic molecules into smaller ones
- Cracking joints, the practice of manipulating one's bone joints to make a sharp sound
- Cracking codes, see cryptanalysis
- Whip cracking
- Safe cracking
- Crackin', band featuring Lester Abrams
- Packing and cracking, a method of creating voting districts to give a political party an advantage
In computing:
- Another name for security hacking; the practice of defeating computer security.
- Password cracking, the process of discovering the plaintext of an encrypted computer password.
- Software cracking, the defeating of software copy protection.
cracking
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Cracking
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 cracking large hydrocarbon molecules into smaller molecules
- Cracking (chemistry), the decomposition of complex organic molecules into smaller ones
- Cracking joints, the practice of manipulating one's bone joints to make a sharp sound
- Cracking codes, see cryptanalysis
- Whip cracking
- Safe cracking
- Crackin', band featuring Lester Abrams
- Packing and cracking, a method of creating voting districts to give a political party an advantage
In computing:
- Another name for security hacking; the practice of defeating computer security.
- Password cracking, the process of discovering the plaintext of an encrypted computer password.
- Software cracking, the defeating of software copy protection.
Examples of use of cracking
1. Cracking shot off his back foot by Dilshan in this over, rocking back and cracking Hoggard to square for four.
2. Small cracking explosions were still going on 18 hours later.
3. Who are the people cracking jokes on the Internet?
4. The cameras kept rolling, the cameramen never cracking a smile.
5. "There has been no restraint in cracking down on terrorism.