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Crater may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

In landforms:

• Impact crater, caused by two bodies impacting each other, such as a meteorite hitting a planet or moon
• Volcanic crater or caldera, formed by volcanic activity
• Subsidence crater, from an underground explosion (usually nuclear)
• A crater-like cavity left in the snow after reindeer dig through the snow and uncover the lichens that sustain them in winter months. The activity is known as "cratering."

Other: Tycho crater on Earths moon. ... Craters on Mount Cameroon Perhaps the most conspicuous part of a volcano is the crater, a basin of a roughly circular form within which occurs a vent (or vents) from which magma erupts as gases, lava, and ejecta. ... Post-shot subsidence crater and Huron King test chamber, which was less than 20 kilotons (1980) A subsidence crater is the crater left on the surface of an area which has had an underground (usually nuclear) explosion. ... Binomial name Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus, 1758) Reindeer map The reindeer, known as caribou when wild in North America, is an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer (Rangifer tarandus). ... Binomial name (Linnaeus, 1758) Reindeer map The reindeer, known as caribou when wild in North America, is an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer (Rangifer tarandus). ...

• Crater (constellation)
• Joseph F. Crater, a New York Judge who mysteriously and famously disappeared in 1930
• An alternate ancient name for the Crathis, a river of southern Italy
• Crater (band) - free funk / space rock group

Crater (Latin for cup) is one of the 88 modern constellations and was also one of the 48 listed by Ptolemy. ... Joseph Force Crater (1889 – 1930?) was a judge in New York City who disappeared on August 6, 1930. ... The Crathis or Crater (Greek: ; Italian: Crati), is one of the most considerable rivers of Bruttium (modern Calabria), which in the northern part of its course formed the boundary between that region and Lucania. ... Free funk is a combination of Avant-garde jazz with funk music. ... For space rocks, see asteroid. ...

See also

• Krater, a Greek vessel used to mix wine and water (the original meaning)

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