CR or Cr may refer to:

In business

Conversion rate In electronic commerce, conversion marketing is a marketing technique aimed at increasing ''conversions''—that is, turning site visitors into paying customers. Conversion marketing addresses low online conversion rates by improving overall cu ...

, in marketing * Credit Record, in accounting * Crown Royal, a brand of Canadian whisky

Organizations

Religious organizations

* Celtic Reconstructionism, a form of Polytheism * Congregation of Clerics Regular of the Divine Providence (Theatines), a Roman Catholic religious order * Community of the Resurrection, an Anglican religious order * Congregation of the Resurrection, a Catholic religious order

Other organizations

* Choose Responsibility, a US non-profit addressing alcohol consumption by young adults *

Consumer Reports Consumer Reports (CR), formerly Consumers Union (CU), is an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy. Founded ...

, an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy; publishes a magazine of the same name * College of the Redwoods, a public two-year community college in Humboldt County, California, US * College Republicans, a college branch of the US political party *

Czech Radio Czech Radio (, ČRo) is the public radio broadcaster of the Czech Republic operating continuously since 1923. It is the oldest national radio broadcaster in continental Europe and the second-oldest in Europe after the BBC. Czech Radio was esta ...

, a public radio broadcaster in the Czech Republic

People

* C. Rajagopalachari, Indian politician * Christina Ricci, American actress * Chris Rock, American comedian and actor *

Cristiano Ronaldo Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for and Captain (association football), captains both Saudi Pr ...

, Portuguese footballer * Christopher Reeve, American actor * A

Royal cypher In modern heraldry, a royal cypher is a monogram or monogram-like device of a country's reigning Monarch, sovereign, typically consisting of the initials of the monarch's name and title, sometimes interwoven and often surmounted by a Crown (heral ...

representing a monarch ** Charles Rex (CR / CIIIR), the royal cypher of King

Charles III Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. Charles was born at Buckingham Palace during the reign of his maternal grandfather, King George VI, and ...

Places

Countries

Coral Sea Islands The Coral Sea Islands Territory is an States and territories of Australia#External territories, external territory of Australia which comprises a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, north-east of ...

(FIPS country code and obsolete NATO country code CR) *

Costa Rica Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, as well as Maritime bo ...

(ISO 3166-1 country code) ** .cr, the top-level domain (ccTLD) for Costa Rica *

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...

Other places

CR postcode area The CR postcode area, also known as the Croydon postcode area, is a group of eight postcode districts in England, within ten post towns. These cover parts of southern Greater London and north-east Surrey. The main sorting office is in Croydon ...

in south London, UK *

Castle Rock (disambiguation) Castle Rock may refer to: Geography Islands * Castle Rock (Alaska), an island off the coast of the U.S. state of Alaska * Castle Rock, Hong Kong, an island of Hong Kong, part of the Po Toi Islands * Castle Rock (Massachusetts), an island in ...

Campbell River (disambiguation) Campbell River may refer to: Canada * Campbell Branch Little Black River, in Quebec, Canada; and Maine, United States * Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada, a city on Vancouver Island * Campbell River (Vancouver Island), the river on which ...

, various rivers *

Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids is a city in Linn County, Iowa, United States, and its county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in u ...

, Iowa, US *

Crawford County, Kansas Crawford County is a county located in Southeast Kansas. Its county seat is Girard, and its most populous city is Pittsburg. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 38,972. The county was named in honor of Samuel Crawford, the ...

, US *

Province of Cremona The province of Cremona (; Cremunés dialect, Cremunés: ; ; Emilian dialects, Casalasco-Viadanese: ) is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital city is Cremona. The province occupies the central section of Pa ...

, Italy *

Disney's Contemporary Resort Disney's Contemporary Resort, originally to be named Tempo Bay Hotel and previously the Contemporary Resort Hotel, is a resort located at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. Opened on October 1, 1971, the hotel is one of two ori ...

, at Walt Disney World

Publications

* ''Casino Royale'' (novel), a James Bond novel * ''Comptes Rendus'' (disambiguation), several publications of the ''Comptes Rendus (proceedings)'' of academic organizations ** ''

Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences (, ''Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences''), or simply ''Comptes rendus'', is a French scientific journal published since 1835. It is the proceedings of the French Academy of Sciences. It is currently split into seven sections, published o ...

'', the proceedings of the French ''Académie des Sciences'', often simply ''Comptes Rendus'' or ''CR'' *

, various publications and media by organization of the same name * ''Critical Review'' (disambiguation), several publications by this name * ''CR'' (magazine), magazine published by the American Association for Cancer Research

Mathematics, science, and technology

Biology and medicine

* CR gas, dibenzoxazepine *

Calorie restriction Calorie restriction (CR, also known as caloric restriction or energy restriction) is a dietary regimen that reduces the energy intake from foods and beverages without incurring malnutrition. The possible effect of calorie restriction on body w ...

Chemokine receptor Chemokine receptors are cytokine receptors found on the surface of certain cells that interact with a type of cytokine called a chemokine. There have been 20 distinct chemokine receptors discovered in humans. Each has a rhodopsin-like 7-tran ...

* Complete remission, in oncology * Computed radiography * Controlled/continuous release, see time release technology * Creatine, a molecule found in myocytes *

Critically endangered species An IUCN Red List critically endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. As of December 2023, of the ...

Computing and telecommunications

* Candidate recommendation, in W3C recommendations * Carriage return, a new line of text in typing and computing * Challenge-response spam filtering * Code review, a systematic examination of computer source code during development *

Cognitive radio A cognitive radio (CR) is a radio that can be programmed and configured dynamically to use the best channels in its vicinity to avoid user interference and congestion. Such a radio automatically detects available channels, then accordingly change ...

, an outgrowth of software-defined radio * Cognitive robotics * Control register * Card reader

Other uses in mathematics, science, and technology

Chromium Chromium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in Group 6 element, group 6. It is a steely-grey, Luster (mineralogy), lustrous, hard, and brittle transition metal. Chromium ...

, symbol Cr, a chemical element * Cr or CR, an improper designation given to astronomical objects in the Collinder catalog of open clusters from Collinder 1–471 * Change request, a document containing a call for an adjustment of a system * Compression ratio, the ratio of the volume of a combustion chamber from its largest capacity to its smallest capacity *

Concentration ratio In economics, concentration ratios are used to quantify market concentration and are based on companies' market shares in a given industry. A concentration ratio (CR) is the sum of the percentage market shares of (a pre-specified number of) t ...

, in economics * Conjugate residual method, an iterative numeric method used for solving systems of linear equations * Complex resistivity (measurement method), a measurement method in geophysics *

Cosmic rays Cosmic rays or astroparticles are high-energy particles or clusters of particles (primarily represented by protons or atomic nuclei) that move through space at nearly the speed of light. They originate from the Sun, from outside of the Solar ...

Photography

* Camera Raw, an image file raw converter by Adobe

Sports

* Canberra Raiders, Australian rugby league football club *

Colorado Rockies The Colorado Rockies are an American professional baseball team based in Denver. The Rockies compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League West, West Division. Th ...

, a Major League Baseball team * Cincinnati Reds, another Major League Baseball team * Colorado Rockies (NHL), a former National Hockey League team *

, Portuguese footballer * Commonwealth record in athletics * Commonwealth record in swimming

Transport

Railways

* Caledonian Railway (Scotland) * Commonwealth Railways (Australia) * Central Railway (India) * Chiltern Railways (England) *

China Railway China State Railway Group Co., Ltd., doing business as China Railway (CR), is the national passenger and freight railroad corporation of the China, People's Republic of China. China Railway operates passenger and freight Rail transport in Chi ...

, or China Railway Corporation, a national corporation in the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

* Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), US * Copper Range Railroad

Roads

County highway A county highway (also county road or county route; usually abbreviated CH or CR) is a road in the United States and in the Canadian province of Ontario that is designated and/or maintained by the County (United States), county highway departm ...

, county road, or county route * Legislative route (Minnesota) or constitutional route

Other uses

* '' Clash Royale'', a popular mobile strategy game developed and published by Supercell * Challenge rating, a rating of challenges in

Dungeons & Dragons ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical ...

* Chart Rulership or Chart Ruler, in astrology * Comfort room, another name for a public toilet * Consciousness raising, in social activism * Continuing resolution, a type of appropriations legislation in the US *

Councillor A councillor, alternatively councilman, councilwoman, councilperson, or council member, is someone who sits on, votes in, or is a member of, a council. This is typically an elected representative of an electoral district in a municipal or re ...

, a title for a public servant, used in Australia and New Zealand *

Cree language Cree ( ; also known as Cree–Montagnais language, Montagnais–Naskapi language, Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 86,475 people across Canada in 2021, from the Northwest Territories to Alberta to ...

(ISO 639 alpha-2 code CR) * Critical reading, a skill measured by the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) * '' Critical Role'', a ''Dungeons & Dragons'' show ** Critical Role Productions; the associated media production company *

Crore Crore (; abbreviated cr) denotes the quantity ten million (107) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system. In many international contexts, the decimal quantity is formatted as 10,000,000, but when used in the context of the India ...

, a number representing 10,000,000 in the Hindu-Arabic numeral system *

Crunchyroll Crunchyroll is an American Video on demand#Subscription models, subscription video on-demand Over-the-top media service, over-the-top Streaming media, streaming service owned by Sony, Sony Group Corporation. The service primarily distributes fi ...

, internet streaming service showing anime * Cr$ or ₢, symbol for Brazilian cruzeiro