DRC

DRC may refer to:

• the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly known as Zaire), the second largest country, by area, on the African continent.

In European humanitarianism:

• Danish Refugee Council, private Danish humanitarian organisation
• Disability Rights Commission, independent non-departmental public body set up by the British Parliament to end discrimination against disabled people

In technology:

• DRC railcar, a diesel powered self propelled railway vehicle in Victoria, Australia
• Design rule checking, area of Electronic Design Automation that determines if a chip design satisfies a series of parameters
• Digital room correction, process in the field of acoustics using digital filters to enhance the input of a sound reproduction system
• Digital reality creation, a Sony-trademarked process to improve HDTV resolution
• Duplicate Reply Cache, a technique found in e.g. Network File System (protocol) implementations
• Dynamic range compression, process that manipulates the dynamic range of an audio signal
• Dynamic Reaction Cell, room placed before the traditional quadrupole room of an ICP-MS device for elminating isobaric interferences
• Dynamic recompilation, technique of translating the machine code of one CPU or platform into the native machine code of another for emulation

Other:

• The Challoner revision of the Douay-Rheims Bible
• Danang Rubber Company, a Vietnam tire company
• Darford River Crossing, a major road transport crossing of the River Thames in England
• Detonautas Roque Clube, a Brazilian rock band
• Democratic Representative Caucus, group of Canadian Members of Parliament who left the Canadian Alliance in 2001 in protest against the leadership of Stockwell Day
• Democratic Resettlement Community, an informal settlement in Swakopmund, Namibia
• The Disaster Research Center, or DRC, devoted to the study of disasters. It was established at Ohio State University in 1963 and moved to the University of Delaware in 1985
• Domain relational calculus, calculus introduced by Michel Lacroix and Alain Pirotte as a declarative database query language for the relational data model
• Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, wine producer of Burgundy, France
• Dynamics Research Corporation, a United States-based publicly held defense contractor
• Dutch Reformed Church, or Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk, a Christian denomination in the Netherlands
• Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk, (English: "Dutch Reformed Church") in South Africa
• D'ni Restoration Council, fictional organization of the universe of computer game Myst

People:

• Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, an American football player
• DART Reliability Center, a Google Team