For sure, yes. But terms of art, like "crash", generally have commonly-understood definitions. And the commonly-understood definition of the term of art "crash" is that it means OS process terminating. Not always! Not all the time. But in general, yes, that's what it means, to most people, most of the time.
This conversation we are having right now, and the other arguments in other comments, is itself the evidence that you are not correct, or if you prefer, correct enough.