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Crest or CREST may refer to:
Buildings
- The Crest (Huntington, New York), listed on U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
- "The Crest", an alternate name for 63 Wall Street, in Manhattan, New York
- Crest Castle (Château Du Crest), Jussy, Switzerland
- Crest House, a building, now in ruins, at the summit of Mount Evans in Colorado
- Crest Theatre, a historic theatre in downtown Sacramento, California
- Crest Theatre, formerly Majestic Crest Theatre, Los Angeles, California
- Crest Theatre, in Old School Square, Delray Beach, Florida
- Cresting, ornamental iron work on Second Empire architecture
Business or commerce
- Crest (toothpaste), a brand of toothpaste
- Crest Audio, an American manufacturer of power amplifiers and mixing consoles
- Crest Animation Productions, an animation studio in Burbank, California
- Crest Animation Studios, an animation studio in India
- Crest Books, an imprint of now defunct Fawcett Publications
- Crest Hotels, a defunct hotel chain in the UK
- Crest Manufacturing Company, producer of the Crestmobile automobile in the 1900s
- CREST (securities depository), a dematerialised securities depository and settlement service of the United Kingdom and Ireland
- Center for Research in Economics and Statistics, Paris, France
- CREST, an information security non-profit organisation for penetration testing providers
Music
- Crest (band), a late 1990s noise pop band
- The Crest (album), a 2010 album by Axel Rudi Pell
- The Crest (band), a gothic metal band from Oslo, Norway
- The Crests, a late 1950s R&B doo wop band whose big hit was "Sixteen Candles"
- Crest Records, an American record label from 1954 to 1963
Places
- Crest, California, an unincorporated community
- Crest, Drôme, a commune in the Drôme département, France
- Crest, Lassen County, California, an unincorporated community
- Crest, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Le Crest, a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme département, France
- Crest Mountain, British Columbia, Canada
Schools
- Crest Boys' Academy, a former secondary school in Neasden in the London Borough of Brent
- Crest Girls' Academy, a former secondary school in Neasden
- Crest High School (Kansas), Colony, Kansas
- Crest High School (North Carolina), Boiling Springs, North Carolina
- The Crest Academy, a secondary school which replaced Crest Boys' and Girls' Academies and Crest Sixth Form in 2014
- Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology, Loughborough University, UK
Science and medicine
- Crest (anatomy), various anatomical features
- Crest (hydrology), the highest level above a certain datum or reference point that a river will reach in a certain amount of time
- Crest (physics), the section of a wave that rises above an undisturbed position
- Crest factor, a dimensionless number quantifying the shapes of waves
- CREST syndrome, a limited form of the disease scleroderma
Ships
- USS Crest (SP-339), a US Navy minesweeper from 1917 to 1919
- Crest (steamboat 1900), which operated in Puget Sound on the west coast of the United States
Other uses
- Crest (heraldry), a component of a heraldic display
- Crest (sports), a common word for the logo used by a sports club
- Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest (1690-1766), Genevan military engineer, physicist and cartographer
- Crest Airpark, a public airport in the state of Washington
See also
- Fasciation or cresting, in botany, abnormal growth of a plant
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