DRC

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DRC may refer to:

• the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the third largest country, by area, on the African continent.

In European humanitarianism:

• Danish Refugee Council, a private Danish humanitarian organisation
• Disability Rights Commission, an 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.
• Dancing Robot Contest, a timed musical and theatrical performance in which 3 or more robotic engines attempt to manipulate a spoon while lifting each other above a platform
• Design rule checking, the area of Electronic Design Automation that determines whether a particular chip design satisfies a series of recommended parameters called Design Rules
• Digital room correction, a process in the field of acoustics where digital filters designed to ameliorate unfavorable effects of a room's acoustics are applied to the input of a sound reproduction system
• Dynamic range compression, a process that manipulates the dynamic range of an audio signal
• Dynamic Reaction Cell, a room placed before the traditional quadrupole room of an ICP-MS device for elminating isobaric interferences

In other fields:

• D'ni Restoration Council, a fictional organization that grew out of the D'ni Restoration Foundation in the fictional Myst universe
• Democratic Representative Caucus, a group of Canadian Members of Parliament who left the Canadian Alliance in 2001 in protest against the leadership of Stockwell Day
• Domain relational calculus, a calculus that was introduced by Michel Lacroix and Alain Pirotte as a declarative database query language for the relational data model
• Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, an estate in Burgundy, France that produces well-known red and white wines
• Dynamics Research Corporation, a United States-based publicly held defense contractor
• Defence Requirements Committee, a British committee during the 1930s.
• Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, an American football player