Crest

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Crest or CREST may refer to:

Buildings

• The Crest (Huntington, New York), a historic house in Suffolk County, New York
• "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

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 UK and Ireland
• Center for Research in Economics and Statistics, Paris, France

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

People

• Charee Crest (born 1997), Filipino actor
• Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest (1690–1766), Genevan military engineer, physicist and cartographer

Places

• Crest, California, an unincorporated community, United States
• Crest, Drôme, a commune in the Drôme département, France
• Crest, Georgia, an unincorporated community, United States
• Crest, Lassen County, California, an unincorporated community, United States
• Crest, Missouri, an unincorporated community, United States
• Le Crest, a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme département, France
• Crest Mountain, British Columbia, Canada

Education

• 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
• The Consortium for Research Excellence, Support and Training (CREST), an organisation that provides training and research support for UK universities

Science and medicine

• Crest (anatomy), various anatomical features
• Crest (feathers), a prominent feature exhibited by several bird and other dinosaur species on their heads
• 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

Symbols

• Crest (heraldry), a component of a heraldic display
• Crest (sports), a common word for the logo used by a sports club

Other uses

• Crest Airpark, a public airport in the state of Washington
• Crests (Digimon), powerful artifacts in the Digimon Adventure anime series
• Crest (video game), an indirect god game by Eat Create Sleep

See also

• Crested (duck breed), a breed of domestic duck
• Cresting (architecture), ornamentation attached to the ridge of a roof, cornice, coping or parapet
• Fasciation or cresting, in botany, abnormal growth of a plant