CRT

C3R1T1

noun

A display device using a cathode ray tube, such as early televisions or monitors.

CommonScrabble 5

Meanings

nounCRT (countable and uncountable, plural CRTs)

plural CRTs

  1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemathematicsInitialism of Chinese remainder theorem.
  2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebusinessInitialism of cathode ray tube.

    A few seconds later, the Angry Man picks up the keyboard and swings it like a baseball bat at his screen—it’s an old PC from the '90s, with a big CRT monitor—whacking it off the desk.

    2018 January 12, Joe Veix, “The Strange History of One of the Internet's First Viral Videos”, in Wired, →ISSN
  3. countableuncountablebecoming datedbusinessA display device using a cathode ray tube, such as early televisions or monitors.
  4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablecomputingInitialism of C runtime.
  5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of crisis response team.
  6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehuman sciencesInitialism of critical race theory.

    JANET: Martin Luther King would have been super-antiracist, but CRT progressives minimize King's accomplishments.

    2021, Stephen Waters, Individuals, Journalism, and Society Epilogue-Lessons learned
    2 more examples

    Considering racism as a normative practice in the academy while centering the experiential perspectives of Chicana and Chicano scholars with racial and gendered microaggressions, Solórzano lays the groundwork for use of CRT in higher education scholarship.

    2016, Adrienne D. Dixson, Celia K. Rousseau Anderson, Jamel K. Donnor, Critical Race Theory in Education: All God's Children Got a Song, page 184

    Last week, he posted on Twitter that he was the “only candidate to take action against CRT,” the “only candidate willing to fight the radical transgender agenda” and the “only candidate willing to call abortion what it is — murder.”

    2022 May 9, Ted Genoways, quoting Jim Pillen, “How Trump Helped Transform Nebraska Into a Toxic Political Wasteland”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  7. AustraliaabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of casual relief teacher.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen

Broader
gas-discharge tube

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 中国剩余定理
  • 中国剩余定理 (Zhōngguó shèngyú dìnglǐ)Mathematical theorem
Greek Κινέζικο Θεώρημα Υπολοίπων
  • Κινέζικο Θεώρημα Υπολοίπων (Kinéziko Theórima Ypoloípon)Mathematical theorem
Italian Teorema Cinese dei Resti
  • Teorema Cinese dei RestiMathematical theorem
Japanese 中国の剰余定理
  • 中国の剰余定理 (Chūgoku no shōyo teiri)Mathematical theorem
Korean 중국인의 나머지 정리
  • 중국인의 나머지 정리 (Junggugin-ui nameoji jeongni)Mathematical theorem
Polish CRT, CRT
  • CRTMathematical theorem
  • CRTmonitor
Russian Кита́йская теоре́ма об оста́тках, ЭЛТ
  • Кита́йская теоре́ма об оста́тках (Kitájskaja teoréma ob ostátkax)Mathematical theorem
  • ЭЛТ (ELT)monitor
Spanish CRT
  • CRTmonitor
Cite this entry
APA

CRT. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/CRT

MLA

“CRT.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/CRT. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “CRT,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/CRT.

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