Creep

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Creep, Creeps or CREEP may refer to:

People

• Creep, a creepy person

Politics

• Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CREEP), an organization associated with the Watergate scandal of U.S. president Nixon's administration

Arts, entertainment, and media

Project management

• Feature creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of features to software
• Instruction creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of unnecessary instructions
• Mission creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a mission
• Scope creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a project

Science

• Creep (deformation), the tendency of a solid material to slowly move or deform permanently under the influence of stresses.
• Creep, advancing of a railway wheel more or less than is expected from rolling, without large-scale slip, see rail adhesion
• Aseismic creep, a slow steady movement along an earthquake fault.
• Downhill creep, the slow progression of soil and rock down a low grade slope.
• Location creep, an erratic effect in real-time locating systems
• Superfluid creep, the tendency for a superfluid to "crawl" up the walls of its container

See also

• Creeper (disambiguation)
• Creepshow (disambiguation)
• Creepy (disambiguation)
• KREEP (coined from abbreviations for "potassium", "rare-earth elements", and "phosphorus"), component of some lunar rocks
• Von Kreepsula, a fictional comic book from Mona the Vampire as well as an antagonist of the same name