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[wiktionary] 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
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- Packing and cracking , a method of creating voting districts to give a political party an advantage
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- 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.
** See also
- Crack (disambiguation)
- Cracker (disambiguation)
- Cracklings (solid material remaining after rendering fat)
- Cracker (pejorative)
- Crac
[disambiguation]