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CRS may refer to:

Organisations

  • Career Retention Specialist, a Marine responsible for enlisted retention in U.S. Marine Corps units
  • China Reconstruction Society, also known as the Blue Shirts Society, a Fascist clique and secret police or para-military force in the Republic of China between 1931 and 1938
  • Commission of Railway Safety, rail safety authority in India
  • Common Reporting Standard, an OECD standard for exchange of information
  • Community Relations Service, United States Department of Justice branch for CR and civil rights
  • Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité, the French riot-control force
  • Congressional Research Service, the public-policy arm of the United States Congress

NGO or commercial

  • Catholic Relief Services, an American international humanitarian agency
  • Classic Rock Society, a UK-based organisation to promote classic and progressive rock music
  • Co-operative Retail Services, a former co-operative society in the United Kingdom
  • Creation Research Society, a Christian research group which engages in creation science
  • Croatian Register of Shipping, an independent classification society working in the marine market
  • Somaschi Fathers (Ordo Clericorum Regularium a Somascha), a charitable religious congregation

Science and technology

Medicine and biology

  • Cambridge Reference Sequence, used in mitochondrial DNA testing
  • Caudal regression syndrome, a rare congenital disorder
  • Chinese restaurant syndrome, purportedly caused by the flavor enhancer glutamate
  • Chronic radiation syndrome, resulting from prolonged exposures to radiation
  • Chronic rhinosinusitis
  • Congenital rubella syndrome, a disease passed from mother to fetus
  • Cutaneous radiation syndrome, a syndrome that results from acute radiation exposure to the skin
  • Cytokine release syndrome, in immunology
  • Cytoreductive surgery, in cancer treatment

Computer science and engineering

  • Canada Remote Systems, a now-defunct bulletin-board system based in Toronto
  • Carrier Routing System, a large-scale core router
  • Celestial Reference System(s), see Barycentric and geocentric celestial reference systems
  • Cluster Ready Services, components of Oracle Clusterware for database support
  • Cold rolled steel
  • Commercial Resupply Services, a NASA contract to deliver supplies to space
  • Common reference string model, in cryptography
  • Computer reservations system (or Central Reservation System), a computerised system used for travel bookings
  • Coordinate reference system, used to locate geographical entities

Other uses

  • Camp Rising Sun (New York), an international leadership-program for youth development
  • Child Rebel Soldier, a former hip-hop supergroup composed of Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, and Pharrell
  • Classroom response system, an interactive teaching tool using "clicker questions"
  • Seychellois Creole (ISO 639-3 language code), a French-based creole language of the Seychelles
  • Colorado Revised Statutes, the legal code of Colorado
  • Cosmic Ray Subsystem, a spacecraft instrument on the Voyager probe that helped detect the interstellar medium
  • Consumer Recreation Services, a fictional company which features in the 1997 film The Game

See also

  • .crs (disambiguation)
  • CRS-1 (disambiguation)

Distinguish from

  • seeress, a female prophet