Crux (disambiguation)

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Crux is the Latin word for cross, and may refer to:

• Crux, the crucial point
• Crux (climbing), the most difficult section of a climbing or mountaineering route
• Crux, or Southern Cross, the smallest of the 88 modern constellations
• Crux cordis, an area of the heart

Art

• Crux (literary), a passage whose correct reading is difficult to determine
• Crux (comics), an American comic book published by CrossGen Entertainment
• "Crux", a lyric line from Frank Zappa in the song "Stink-foot" "The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe" from his 1974 commercial hit (with a bullet) album Apostrophe (')
• "Crux", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1996 book The Coral Sea
• The Crux (band), a band from Santa Rosa, California

Computing

• CRUX, a lightweight, x86-64-optimized Linux distribution
• "Crux", a theme in the GNOME desktop environment

Other uses

• Crux: Covering all things Catholic, a web site published by The Boston Globe
• Gryphus-1's air operator in Ace Combat X
• Crux Mathematicorum with Mathematical Mayhem published by the Canadian Mathematical Society
• Crux, a character in the anime series Final Fantasy: Unlimited
• Crux, an avatar in Second Life
• Crux, the name of a hollow planet created during Shared Worlds, at Wofford College
• Yamaha Crux, a motorcycle manufactured by India Yamaha Motor