Crescendo

It also may mean:

In music

• A Liverpool based electronic pop band
• Crescendo International, a network of Christian classical music professionals and students
• Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue, one of Duke Ellington's longer-form compositions
• Insanity's Crescendo, a song by Dark Tranquillity
• The Crescendos, an early rock and roll group
• A lyric in "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson

In film

• Crescendo (1970 film), a 1970 British thriller
• Crescendo, a 2003 gay pornographic film by French director Jean-Daniel Cadinot.
• A term Alfred Hitchcock used to describe the major setpieces in his films

In computing

• Crescendo, ERP System created by Ignacio Vizcaino Tapia, http://www.creswin.com
• Crescendo Communications was a computer networking company that was acquired by Cisco in the 1990s.
• Crescendo Networks is a company which develops and sells application acceleration devices for data centers
• Crescendo (visual novel), a bishōjo game by the studio Digital Objet.
• Crescendo Systems Corporation is a Canadian company that develops and sells digital dictation, speech recognition and document management software for the healthcare and legal sectors.
• Crescendo is a hentai game.

In languages other than English

• Crescendo is an Italian and Portuguese word which means "growing"