CRACKING meaning: Unauthorized access through technical manipulation

We found 43 dictionaries that define the word Cracking:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

cracking: Merriam-Webster
cracking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
cracking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
cracking: Collins English Dictionary
cracking: Vocabulary.com
Cracking, cracking: Wordnik
cracking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
cracking: Wiktionary
cracking: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
cracking: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
cracking: Infoplease Dictionary
cracking: Dictionary.com
cracking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Cracking (chemistry), Cracking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Cracking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
cracking: Rhymezone
Cracking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
cracking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
cracking: FreeDictionary.org
cracking: Mnemonic Dictionary
cracking: TheFreeDictionary.com
cracking: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)

Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
cracking: Legal dictionary
cracking: Financial dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)

cracking: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
cracking: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
I T Glossary (No longer online)
Cracking (chemistry), cracking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

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cracking: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

cracking: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

cracking, cracking: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
cracking: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
cracking: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

Cracking: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)

Book Binding (No longer online)
AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
Oil Analysis (No longer online)
Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cracking)

▸ noun:  (organic chemistry, petrochemistry) The thermal decomposition of a substance, especially that of crude petroleum in order to produce petrol / gasoline.
▸ noun:  The formation of cracks on a surface.
▸ noun:  The production of a crack sound.
▸ adjective:  That cracks; that produces a sharp sound as of something splitting or breaking.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial) Great; excellent.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial) Enjoyable.
▸ adverb:  (British) Very, usually associated with praise.

Similar:

groovy, swell, peachy, cool, fracture, smashing, bang-up, slap-up, noisy, corking, more...

Opposite:

mending, repairing, fixing, restoring, healing

Types:

knuckle cracking, jaw cracking, finger cracking, back cracking, foot cracking, neck cracking, ear cracking, lip cracking, eye cracking, more...

Phrases:

catalytic cracking, cracking down, cracking up, thermal cracking, voice cracking, more...

Adjectives:

stress, thermal, catalytic, corrosion, hot, intergranular, environmental, extensive, severe, induced, longitudinal

Colors:

crimson, scarlet, ruby, garnet, vermilion, more...