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Creole
Creole describes peoples, languages, and cultural forms arising from mixing during the European colonial era, including creole languages like Haitian Creole and creole peoples such as those of Louisiana.
Creole circus
The Creole circus, also called circo criollo or circus theater, is an Argentine performance form pairing circus acts with gaucho drama, pioneered by the Podestá family.
Creole language
Creole language: a stable contact language, often from a pidgin, that became a community's native tongue, combining superstrate (lexifier) vocabulary with substrate grammar; examples include Haitian Creole, Krio, and Jamaican Creole.
Creole peoples
Creole peoples (Créoles) are groups to whom the term Creole refers: originally people of European or African descent born in the West Indies or Spanish or French America.
Creole Trail Pipeline
The Creole Trail Pipeline is a 94-mile, 42-inch bidirectional natural gas pipeline in southwestern Louisiana, owned by Cheniere Energy Partners, that feeds the Sabine Pass LNG terminal since 2008.
Créolité
Créolité, or creoleness, is a French Antillean cultural and literary movement asserting a mixed Creole identity, formulated by Martinican writers Bernabé, Chamoiseau, and Confiant in their 1989 manifesto Éloge de la créolité.
Creolization
Creolization is the process by which new creole languages emerge from contact between languages, and, in the social sciences, the mixing of cultures in colonial societies.
Creos Luxembourg
Creos Luxembourg S.A., the former Cegedel, is the Luxembourg company that operates the country's electricity and natural gas networks as transmission and distribution operator, employing more than 940 people.
Creosote
Creosote is a family of oily mixtures of many chemicals made by high-temperature treatment of beech wood, coal, or creosote bush resin, used mainly as a wood preservative.
Creotech Instruments
Creotech Instruments S.A. is a Polish satellite manufacturer and space-systems prime contractor founded in 2008, known for its HyperSat platform and ESA's CAMILA constellation contract.
Crêpe
Crêpe: very thin unleavened French pancake of wheat batter (sweet crêpe) or buckwatter galette, from 13th-century Brittany; national dish of France, crêperie culture, Chandeleur, Gavottes, bilig and rozell.
Crepe paper
Crepe paper is paper creped off a heated dryer by a blade, giving it stretch and softness; it serves tissue, decorative streamers, sacks, and electrical insulation.
Crepidotaceae
Crepidotaceae, oysterling family, a family of dark-spored saprotrophic agaric fungi (Agaricales) centered on Crepidotus and Simocybe; molecular work showed Singer's broad circumscription was polyphyletic and redefined the family.
Crepidula
Crepidula, known as slipper snails or slipper limpets, is a genus of marine gastropod snails named for their shoe-like shells, with at least 53 recognized species.
Crepidula fornicata
Crepidula fornicata, the Atlantic slipper limpet, a calyptraeid gastropod native to eastern North America, introduced to Europe in the 1870s with oyster imports; a protandrous hermaphrodite forming stacks, now an invasive filter feeder on North Sea coasts.
Crepis
Crepis (hawksbeards) is a genus of about 200 Asteraceae herbs of the Northern Hemisphere and tropical African mountains, type species C. biennis, shown by molecular data to be polyphyletic as circumscribed by Babcock's 1947 monograph.
Crepitus
Crepitus: medical term for popping, cracking, grinding joint sounds or sensations, from gas cavitation, tendon snapping, or cartilage wear; also bony grating in fractures and subcutaneous crackling; common, usually benign without pain.
Crepuscular animal
Crepuscular animal: species most active at dawn and dusk twilight, unlike diurnal or nocturnal animals; includes deer, moths, mosquitoes; about 2.5% of mammals, dominant in Arctic regions.
Crepuscular poetry
Crepuscular poetry (Italian: poesia crepuscolare) was an early twentieth-century current of Italian poetry named by critic Giuseppe Antonio Borgese in 1910, led by Guido Gozzano.
Cres
Cres is the largest Croatian island (405.7 km²) in the Kvarner Gulf of the Adriatic, 66 km long, with karst Lake Vrana supplying water to Cres and Lošinj, a history from Liburnians through Venetian rule, and griffon vulture reserves.
Cresa
Cresa (Cresa Global, Inc.) is a Chicago-headquartered commercial real estate advisory firm founded in 1993 that exclusively represents occupiers, never landlords, offering transaction management, project services, portfolio solutions, and lease administration.
Crescendo (multi-turn jailbreak)
Crescendo is a multi-turn jailbreak technique against large language models, introduced by Microsoft researchers in April 2024, which escalates benign requests until the model complies.
Crescendo Biologics
Crescendo Biologics Ltd is a clinical-stage immuno-oncology biotechnology company in Cambridge, UK, developing Humabody single-domain antibody therapeutics, with lead candidate CB307 in Phase 1b trials.
Crescendo Bioscience
Crescendo Bioscience was a South San Francisco molecular diagnostics company known for the Vectra DA rheumatoid arthritis blood test, acquired by Myriad Genetics in 2014.
Crescent
A crescent is a curved shape with two narrow pointed ends, like the Moon when less than half its visible face is illuminated by the Sun.
Crescent City (film)
Crescent City is a 2024 American crime thriller directed by RJ Collins, written by Rich Ronat, starring Terrence Howard, Esai Morales, Nicky Whelan, and Alec Baldwin as Little Rock detectives hunting a serial killer; released by Lionsgate August 16, 2024, and poorly reviewed (14% on Rotten Tomatoes).
Crescent City (novel series)
Crescent City is Sarah J. Maas's urban fantasy series (House of Earth and Blood, House of Sky and Breath, House of Flame and Shadow) following half-Fae Bryce Quinlan on Midgard, her adult debut, linked to the ACOTAR megaverse.
Crescent City Connection
The Crescent City Connection, formerly the Greater New Orleans Bridge, is a pair of twin cantilever bridges carrying US 90 Business across the Mississippi River at New Orleans.
Crescent City, California
Crescent City, California: only incorporated city of Del Norte County, county seat since 1857, population about 6,000. Known as a tsunami magnet due to the Mendocino Fracture Zone; devastated by the 1964 Alaska tsunami.
Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project
The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is a 110 MW concentrating solar power plant near Tonopah, Nevada, the first full-scale molten-salt power tower built in the United States.