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Creep, Creeps or CREEP may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Project management

• Feature creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of features to software
• Instruction creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of unnecessary instructions
• Mission creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a mission
• Scope creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a project

Science

• Creep (deformation), the tendency of a solid material to slowly move or deform permanently under the influence of stresses
• Creep, the advancing of a railway wheel more or less than is expected from rolling, without large-scale slip; see rail adhesion
  • Idle creep, the tendency of a car with an automatic transmission to roll without the brakes engaged or the gear set to neutral
• Aseismic creep, a slow, steady movement along an earthquake fault
• Downhill creep, the slow progression of soil and rock down a low-grade slope
• Location creep, an erratic effect in real-time locating systems
• Superfluid creep, the tendency for a superfluid to "crawl" up the walls of its container; see Superfluidity

Other

• Creep, a creepy person
• Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP), mockingly abbreviated as CREEP, an fundraising organization for Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign
• "The Creeps", an episode of the TV series Adventure Time

See also

• Creeper (disambiguation)
• Creepshow (disambiguation)
• Creepy (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Creep
• KREEP (coined from abbreviations for "potassium", "rare-earth elements", and "phosphorus"), component of some lunar rocks