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CrowdStreet
CrowdStreet is an American financial technology company in Portland, Oregon, operating an online marketplace connecting accredited investors with commercial real estate investments from private sponsors.
CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike (Falcon platform) is an American cybersecurity company founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, public since 2019, selling cloud-native AI-driven endpoint detection and response via a single lightweight agent; known for DNC and SolarWinds investigations and the July 2024 Windows outage.
CrowdStrike Falcon
CrowdStrike Falcon is a cloud-delivered cybersecurity platform by CrowdStrike, launched in 2012, covering endpoint detection and response, antivirus, cloud security, and threat hunting through one agent.
Crowley Maritime
Crowley Maritime is a privately held American maritime and logistics company founded by Thomas Crowley in San Francisco Bay in 1892, now based in Jacksonville, Florida.
Crown Building (Manhattan)
The Crown Building, also known as the Heckscher Building, is a 25-story skyscraper at 730 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, built 1920–22 by Warren & Wetmore.
Crown Castle
Crown Castle is an American real estate investment trust in Houston, Texas, founded in 1994 and one of the largest owners of US cell towers.
CrownRock
CrownRock was a privately held Midland, Texas oil and gas partnership formed in 2007 by CrownQuest Operating and Lime Rock Partners to develop Permian Basin acreage.
Croydon Airport
Croydon Airport, also known as Croydon Aerodrome, was London's main international airport from 1920 to 1946, site of the world's first purpose-built terminal and air traffic control tower.
CRRC
CRRC Corporation Limited (Chinese: 中国中车) is a Chinese state-owned rolling stock manufacturer formed in 2015 by merging CNR and CSR, and the world's largest builder of locomotives and metro trains.
CRSP (database)
CRSP is a research database of U.S. stock prices, returns, and corporate actions maintained since 1960 by the Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago.
Cruachan Power Station
Cruachan Power Station, known as the Hollow Mountain, is a 440 MW underground pumped storage hydroelectric plant at Loch Awe in Scotland, opened in 1965.
Cruas nuclear power plant
Cruas nuclear power plant (centrale nucléaire de Cruas-Meysse) is an EDF nuclear station in the Ardèche with four 900 MWe reactors commissioned in 1984 and 1985.
Crucial (brand)
Crucial is the consumer brand of Micron Technology, founded in 1996, selling DRAM memory modules and solid-state drives to PC builders; Micron announced its exit in 2025.
Crucible steel
Crucible steel, also called the crucible technique or cast steel, is steel melted in a closed ceramic crucible, the earliest liquid steel, known for wootz and Damascus blades.
Crude distillation
Crude distillation is the first step of oil refining, heating crude oil in a furnace and splitting it by boiling point into fractions like naphtha, kerosene, and diesel.
Crudos Pesados Oil Pipeline
The Crudos Pesados Oil Pipeline, or Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP), is a 485 km heavy crude pipeline in Ecuador from the Amazon to the Pacific coast, built 2001–2003 and reverted to the state in 2024.
Cruise (autonomous vehicle company)
Cruise LLC was a San Francisco autonomous vehicle company founded in 2013, acquired by General Motors in 2016, and absorbed into GM in 2025 after a 2023 pedestrian incident.
Cruise control
Cruise control, also known as the Speedostat, automatically maintains a speed chosen by the driver; invented by Ralph Teetor, it reached production cars in 1958.
Cruise missile
A cruise missile is an unmanned, jet-powered weapon that flies a flat course to its target, unlike a ballistic missile; the type began with Germany's V-1 in 1944.
Cruise Origin
The Cruise Origin was an all-electric, driverless robotaxi developed by Cruise with GM and Honda, unveiled in San Francisco in 2020 and canceled in 2024 without carrying fare-paying passengers.
Cruise ship
A cruise ship, also called a cruise liner, is a passenger ship built for pleasure voyages where the voyage itself, not transportation, is the purpose.
Cruiser
A cruiser is a fast, long-range surface warship operating independently or as a fleet escort, historically for scouting and commerce raiding, now a multi-mission escort for carrier strike groups like the retiring Ticonderoga class.
Cruiser Mk I
The Cruiser Mk I, formally Tank, Cruiser, Mark I (A9), was the first British cruiser tank. Built by Vickers-Armstrongs, 125 saw combat in France in 1940 and in North Africa through 1941.
Cruiser Mk II
The Cruiser Mk II, designed as the A10, was a British cruiser tank of the late 1930s, armed with a 2-pounder gun and too slow for its cruiser role.
Cruiser Mk VIII Challenger
The Cruiser Mk VIII Challenger, or Challenger A30, was a British Second World War cruiser tank mounting the 17-pounder gun on a lengthened Cromwell chassis.
Cruiser tank
The cruiser tank, sometimes called the cavalry tank, was a British fast, lightly armored tank of the 1930s and Second World War, designed to exploit breakthroughs.
Cruising (maritime)
Cruising (maritime): leisure travel by boat, from private sailing-yacht cruising pioneered by MacGregor, McMullen, and Middleton to the commercial cruise industry begun with Prinzessin Victoria Luise in 1900; covers passage planning, SOLAS V/34, and boat selection.
Crumple zone
A crumple zone is a vehicle body region, front or rear, that deforms in a controlled way during a collision to absorb crash energy and protect occupants.
CrunchLabs
CrunchLabs is a subscription STEM-kit company co-founded in 2022 by YouTube creator Mark Rober in Sunnyvale, California, selling Creative Kit, Build Box, and Hack Box.
Crusader tank
The Crusader tank, officially Cruiser Mk VI, was a British World War II cruiser tank used almost entirely in the North African campaign from 1941 to 1943.