Usually means: Curved shapes resembling a moon.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word crescents:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Crescents, crescents: Merriam-Webster
  2. crescents: Collins English Dictionary
  3. crescents: Vocabulary.com
  4. Crescent's, Crescents, crescents: Wordnik
  5. crescents: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. crescents: Wiktionary
  7. crescents: Dictionary.com
  8. crescents: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Crescents: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Crescents: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crescents: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. crescents: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Crescents: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See crescent as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Crescent)

noun:  The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.
noun:  Something shaped like a crescent, especially:
noun:  A curved pastry.
noun:  A curved street, often presenting a continuous façade, as of row houses.
noun:  (Islam) A representation of a crescent, used as a symbol of Islam.
noun:  (heraldry) The emblem of the waxing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
noun:  (New Zealand) A crescent spanner.
noun:  (historical) Any of three orders of knighthood conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services.
noun:  A crescentspot butterfly.
adjective:  (dated, rare) marked by an increase; waxing, like the Moon.
adjective:  Shaped like a crescent.
verb:  (transitive) To form a crescent shape
verb:  (transitive) To decorate with crescents.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A census-designated place in McIntosh County, Georgia.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Latah County, Idaho.
noun:  A township in Iroquois County, Illinois.
noun:  A minor city and township in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
noun:  A hamlet in the town of Halfmoon, Saratoga County, New York.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Rowan County, North Carolina.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.
noun:  A city in Logan County, Oklahoma.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon.
noun:  A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
noun:  A town in Oneida County, Wisconsin.
noun:  An unincorporated community in the town of Arthur, Chippewa County, Wisconsin.
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