Crash may refer to:
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Sudden events
- Collision Collisions involve forces . Collisions can be elastic, meaning they conserve energy and momentum, inelastic, meaning they conserve momentum but not energy, or totally inelastic (or plastic), meaning they conserve momentum and the two objects stick together, an impact between two moving objects
- Crash (computing) A crash or in computing is a condition where a program (either an application or part of the operating system) stops performing its expected function and also stops responding to other parts of the system. Often the offending program may simply appear to freeze. If this program is a critical part of the operating system kernel the entire computer, a condition where a program ceases to respond
- Hard disk drive Head crash The head normally rides on a thin film of moving air entrapped at the surface of the platter [citation needed]. The topmost layer of the platter is made of a Teflon-like material that acts like a lubricant. Underneath is a layer of sputtered carbon. These two layers protect the magnetic layer (data storage area) from most accidental touches of the in which a drive A hard disk drive , is a non-volatile storage device which stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic surfaces. Strictly speaking, "drive" refers to a device distinct from its medium, such as a tape drive and its tape, or a floppy disk drive and its floppy disk. Early HDDs had removable media; however, an's read-write head physically collides with the disk The magnetic surface of each platter is divided into small sub-micrometer-sized magnetic regions, each of which is used to represent a single binary unit of information. A typical magnetic region on a hard disk platter is about 200-250 nanometers wide (in the radial direction of the platter) and extends about 25-30 nanometers in the down-track.
- Stock market crash A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors. They often follow speculative stock market bubbles, a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices
- Cardiac arrest A cardiac arrest is different from a heart attack or myocardial infarction, where blood flow to the still-beating heart is interrupted (as in cardiogenic shock), a medical condition in which the heart stops beating
Film
- Crash! (1976 film), a suspense drama starring Jose Ferrer and Sue Lyon
- Crash (1978 film), a made-for-TV docudrama starring William Shatner and Adrienne Barbeau
- Crash (1996 film), a drama directed by David Cronenberg
- Crash (2004 film) Crash is a 2005 American/German drama film, written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2004, and was released internationally in 2005. The film is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles. A self-described "passion piece" for director Paul Haggis, Crash was inspired by a, a drama directed by Paul Haggis and winner of the 2005 Academy Award for Best Picture
Television
- Crash (1984 TV series), a Danish science fiction series
- Crash (2008 TV series), a drama based on the 2004 film
- "The Crash" (Life on Mars), an erroneous title for the first episode of Life on Mars
Books and magazines
- Crash (1973 novel) Crash is a novel by English author J. G. Ballard, first published in 1973. It is a story about car-crash sexual fetishism: its protagonists become sexually aroused by staging and participating in real car-crashes, often with real consequences. Ballard uses a cold and detached language about this automotive paraphilia which gives the novel the tone by J. G. Ballard, the basis of the 1996 film
- Crash (1996 novel), by Jerry Spinelli
- Crash (magazine) Crash was a magazine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was published from 1984 to 1991 by Newsfield Publications Ltd until their liquidation, and then until 1992 by Europress
Music
Performers
- Crash (South Korean band)
- Crash (UK band)
- The Crash (band), a Finnish pop rock band
- Billy "Crash" Craddock, country music singer
- Darby Crash, punk rock musician
- Crash (drummer), member of the Swedish hard rock band H.E.A.T
Albums
- Crash (Billy "Crash" Craddock album)
- Crash (Dave Matthews Band album)
- Crash (Human League album)
- Crash (Decyfer Down)
Songs
- "Crash" (Feeder song)
- "Crash" (Gwen Stefani song)
- "Crash" (The Primitives song)
- "Crash" (Royseven song)
- "Crash", a song by Propellerheads
- "Crash", a song by Methods of Mayhem from Methods of Mayhem
Record labels
- Crash Music Inc., a record label
Gaming
- Crash (card game)
- Crash convention, a concept in the game of bridge
- Crash Bandicoot, a video game
- Crash, a character in the video game Crash 'n the Boys: Street Challenge
People with the given name Crash
- Crash (graffiti artist) or John Matos (born 1961), American graffiti artist
- Crash Holly or Mike Lockwood (1971–2003), American professional wrestler
Other uses
- Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, a unit of the Los Angeles Police Department
- A group of rhinoceroses Rhinoceros , often colloquially abbreviated rhino, is a name used to group five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. Two of these species are native to Africa and three to southern Asia. Three of the five species—the Javan, Sumatran and Black Rhinoceros—are critically endangered. The Indian is endangered, with
- The act of gate-crashing, entering an event without invitation
See also
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