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Definition of Cracking

Cracking
Crack Crack (kr[a^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cracked (kr[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cracking.] [OE. cracken, craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, Creak.] 1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. 2. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze. O, madam, my old heart is cracked. --Shak. He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. --Roscommon. 3. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip. 4. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke. --B. Jonson. 5. To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up. [Low] To crack a bottle, to open the bottle and drink its contents. To crack a crib, to commit burglary. [Slang] To crack on, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. [Colloq.]

Meaning of Cracking from wikipedia

- Look up cracking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cracking may refer to: Cracking, the formation of a fracture or partial fracture in a solid material...
- protection P****word cracking, the process of recovering p****words from data stored in or transmitted by a computer system Security hacker, cracking a system to...
- variants of thermal cracking methods (variously known as the "Shukhov cracking process", "Burton cracking process", "Burton-Humphreys cracking process", and...
- research showed that bubbles remained in the fluid after cracking, suggesting that the cracking sound was produced when the bubble within the joint was...
- important types of crack are as follows: Crocodile cracking, also known as alligator cracking and fatigue cracking Block cracking (caused by shrinkage...
- products. Steam cracking is the core technology that supports the largest scale chemical processes, i.e. ethylene and propylene. In steam cracking, a gaseous...
- Crack cocaine, commonly known simply as crack, and also known as rock, is a free base form of the stimulant cocaine that can be smoked. Crack offers a...
- a specific crack. A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed p****word. Cracking software generally...
- Crocodile cracking (also called alligator cracking and perhaps misleadingly fatigue cracking) is a common type of distress in asphalt pavement. The following...
- of p****word cracking require the computer to produce many candidate p****words, each of which is checked. One example is brute-force cracking, in which a...