Crux (disambiguation)

Crux or Southern Cross, is the smallest of the 88 modern constellations.

Crux may refer to:

Science and technology

• Crux cordis or crux of the heart, an area of the heart
• CRUX, a Linux distribution
• "Crux", a theme in the GNOME desktop environment

Art

• Crux (literary), a passage whose correct reading is difficult to determine
• Crux (comics), an American comic book published by CrossGen Entertainment
• "Crux", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1996 book The Coral Sea
• The Crux (band), an American band

Fiction

• Crux, a character in the anime series Final Fantasy: Unlimited
• Crux, an avatar in Second Life
• Crux, Gryphus-1's air operator in Ace Combat X
• Crux, a 2013 novel by Ramez Naam as a sequel to Nexus

Other uses

• Cross (Latin: crux)
• Crux (climbing), the most difficult section of a climbing or mountaineering route
• Yamaha Crux, a motorcycle manufactured by India Yamaha Motor
• Crux Mathematicorum, published by the Canadian Mathematical Society
• Crux: Covering all things Catholic, a website published by The Boston Globe

See also

• Cross (disambiguation)