• Impact crater
  Impact crater
  In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...
  
  , caused by two celestial bodies impacting each other, such as a meteorite hitting a planet
• Volcanic crater
  Volcanic crater
  A volcanic crater is a circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity. It is typically a basin, circular in form within which occurs a vent from which magma erupts as gases, lava, and ejecta. A crater can be of large dimensions, and sometimes of great depth...
  
   or caldera
  Caldera
  A caldera is a cauldron-like volcanic feature usually formed by the collapse of land following a volcanic eruption, such as the one at Yellowstone National Park in the US. They are sometimes confused with volcanic craters...
  
  , formed by volcanic activity
• Subsidence crater
  Subsidence crater
  A subsidence crater is a hole or depression left on the surface of an area which has had an underground explosion. Many such craters are present at the Nevada Test Site, which is no longer in use for nuclear testing....
  
  , from an underground (usually nuclear) explosion
• A maar
  Maar
  A maar is a broad, low-relief volcanic crater that is caused by a phreatomagmatic eruption, an explosion caused by groundwater coming into contact with hot lava or magma. A maar characteristically fills with water to form a relatively shallow crater lake. The name comes from the local Moselle...
  
   crater, a relief crater caused by a phreatic eruption or explosion
• pit crater
  Pit crater
  A pit crater is a depression formed by a sinking of the ground surface lying above a void or empty chamber, rather than by the eruption of a volcano or lava vent. It is often found in chains or troughs. Several craters may merge into a linear alignment...
  
  , a crater that forms through sinking of the surface and not as a vent for lava
• Crater lake
  Crater lake
  A crater lake is a lake that forms in a volcanic crater or caldera, such as a maar; less commonly and with lower association to the term a lake may form in an impact crater caused by a meteorite. Sometimes lakes which form inside calderas are called caldera lakes, but often this distinction is not...
  
  
• Explosion crater
  Explosion crater
  An explosion crater is a characteristically shaped hole formed when material is ejected from the surface of the ground by an explosive event just above, at, or below the surface....
  
  , a hole formed in the ground produced by an explosion near or below the surface
• Machtesh, a crater-like formation created by erosion.

• Crater, California
  Crater, California
  Crater is an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California. It is located in the Last Chance Range northwest of Ubehebe Crater, at an elevation of 5305 feet ....
  
  , in Inyo County
• Cratering, when reindeer dig for lichens that sustain them in winter months
• Crater (constellation)
  Crater (constellation)
  Crater is a constellation. Its name is Latin for cup, and in Greek mythology it is identified with the cup of the god Apollo. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains one of the 88 modern constellations...
  
  
• Joseph F. Crater
  Joseph F. Crater
  Joseph Force Crater was a judge in New York City who disappeared on the night of August 6, 1930. He was last seen leaving a restaurant on 45th Street. He had stated earlier that he was planning to attend a Broadway show...
  
  , a New York judge who mysteriously and famously disappeared in 1930
• An alternate ancient name for the Crathis
  Crathis
  The Crathis or Crater is a river in Calabria, southern Italy. It rises in the central the Sila Mountains, a few kilometers south of Cosenza, flows below the walls of that city, where it is joined by the smaller stream of the Busento, and has a course nearly due north through the center of the...
  
  , a river of southern Italy
• Crater (Yemen)
  Crater (Yemen)
  Crater, also Kraytar, is one of the unofficial names of the oldest districts of the port city of Aden. Its official name is Seera . It is situated in a crater of an ancient volcano which forms the Shamsan Mountains...
  
  

See also

• Krater
  Krater
  A krater was a large vase used to mix wine and water in Ancient Greece.-Form and function:...
  
  , a Greek vessel used to mix wine and water (the original meaning)