CRC may refer to:

Science and technology

Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse The Carboniferous rainforest collapse (CRC) was a minor extinction event that occurred around 305 million years ago in the Carboniferous period. The event occurred at the end of the Moscovian and continued into the early Kasimovian stages of th ...

, an event at the end of the Carboniferous period *

Class-responsibility-collaboration card Class-responsibility-collaboration (CRC) cards are a brainstorming tool used in the design of object-oriented software. They were originally proposed by Ward Cunningham and Kent Beck as a teaching tool but are also popular among expert designers ...

, used as a brainstorming tool in the design of object-oriented software * Clinical research coordinator, responsible for conducting clinical trials *

Colorectal cancer Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the Colon (anatomy), colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine). Signs and symptoms may include Lower gastrointestinal ...

, the development of cancer in the colon or rectum * CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, formerly the Carbon Reduction Commitment, a UK wide scheme designed to increase energy efficiency in large energy users * ''

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics The ''CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics'' is a comprehensive one-volume reference resource for science research. First published in 1914, it is currently () in its 105th edition, published in 2024. It is known colloquially among chemists as ...

'', a science reference handbook published by CRC Press * ''

CRC Standard Mathematical Tables ''CRC Standard Mathematical Tables'' (also ''CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulas'' or ''SMTF'') is a comprehensive one-volume handbook containing a fundamental working knowledge of mathematics and tables of formulas. History The handb ...

'', a mathematics reference handbook published by CRC Press *

Cyclic redundancy check A cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is an error-detecting code commonly used in digital networks and storage devices to detect accidental changes to digital data. Blocks of data entering these systems get a short ''check value'' attached, based on ...

, a type of hash function used to produce a checksum in order to detect errors in data storage or transmission

Organizations

California Rehabilitation Center California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) is a state prison located in Norco, Riverside County, California. The prison is sometimes referenced as "Norco" or "Norco Prison". Facilities CRC has and is located next to the Naval Surface Warfare Ce ...

, a state prison in the United States Of America *

Canadian Red Cross The Canadian Red Cross Society ()Capital Research Center Capital Research Center (CRC) is an American conservative 501(c)(3) non-profit watchdog group located in Washington, D.C., that monitors liberal money in politics. Its stated purpose is "to study non-profit organizations, with a special focus o ...

, an American conservative non-profit organization * Censorship Review Committee, which meets to discuss censorship in Singapore *

Central Revolutionary Committee The Central Revolutionary Committee (, CRC) was a French Blanquist political party founded in 1881 and dissolved in 1898. The CRC was founded by Édouard Vaillant to continue the political struggle of Auguste Blanqui (1805–1881). It was weake ...

(French: Comité révolutionnaire central), an extinct French political party * Civilian Response Corps, deployable American federal civilian employees who provide reconstruction and stabilization assistance *

Commission for Rural Communities The Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) was established as a division of England's Countryside Agency on 1 April 2005, and became a non-departmental public body on 1 October 2006, following the enactment of the Natural Environment and Rural Com ...

, a United Kingdom public body *

Committee on the Rights of the Child The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a body of experts that monitor and report on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The committee also monitors the convention's three optional protoco ...

, which reports on implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child **

Convention on the Rights of the Child The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international international human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of ch ...

, of the United Nations *

Communications Research Centre Canada The Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC; ) is a Canadian government scientific laboratory for research and development in wireless technologies, with a particular focus on the efficient use of radio frequency spectrum. Its mission is as fo ...

, an agency of Industry Canada *

Communist, Republican, and Citizen Group The Communist, Republican, Citizen and Ecologist group () is a parliamentary group in the Senate (France), French Senate, the indirectly elected upper house of the French Parliament. Unlike most other parliamentary groups in the Senate, it counts ...

, a French parliamentary group * Community Rehabilitation Company, a private-sector suppliers of offender rehabilitation services in England and Wales *

Constitutional Research Council The Constitutional Research Council (CRC) is a Unionism in the United Kingdom, Unionist funding organisation, chaired by Scottish Conservative Richard Cook. It helped to fund the Democratic Unionist Party, DUP's Leave campaign in Northern Ireland, ...

, a Unionist, pro-Brexit funding organisation in Scotland and Northern Ireland *

Control and Reporting Centre A Control and Reporting Centre (CRC) is according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff publication 1.02 defined as: "A subordinated air control element of the tactical air control centre for which radar control and warning operations are conducted within ...

, part of the Air Force control and reporting system in most NATO countries *

Civil Rights Congress The Civil Rights Congress (CRC) was a United States civil rights organization, formed in 1946 at a national conference for radicals and disbanded in 1956. It succeeded the International Labor Defense, the National Federation for Constitutional L ...

, a United States civil rights organization from 1946 until 1956

Religion

CRC Churches International CRC Churches International, formerly known as the Christian Revival Crusade, is a Finished Work Pentecostalism, Finished Work Pentecostal Christian denomination founded in New Zealand and Australia by Leo Harris in Adelaide, South Australia, ...

, a Pentecostal Protestant Christian denomination located primarily in Australasia *

Central Rabbinical Congress The Central Rabbinical Congress (in full: Central Rabbinical Congress of the US and Canada, commonly abbreviated to CRC; ) is a rabbinical organization that is a consortium of various Haredi Jewish groups, with offices in Brooklyn, New York. H ...

, a Haredi group *

Chicago Rabbinical Council The Chicago Rabbinical Council (or cRc) is the largest regional Orthodox rabbinical organization in America, located in Chicago, Illinois. The cRc is a non-profit offering a wide variety of Jewish services, including kosher product supervision an ...

Christian Reformed Church (disambiguation) Christian Reformed Church may refer to: *Christian Reformed Churches (Netherlands), a Protestant church in the Netherlands *Christian Reformed Church in North America, a Protestant Christian denomination in the United States and Canada *Christian Re ...

Christian Revival Church The Christian Revival Church is a Full Gospel, Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic Christian denomination in India. History The CRC was started at Gariphema Village, Nagaland, India on 9 January 1962 as Christian Revival Church (CRC) by Re ...

, a Charismatic, Pentecostal and holistic Evangelical movement group *

Ligue de la contre-réforme catholique The League for Catholic Counter-Reformation (, CRC) is a nationalist and ultramontane organization founded in 1967 by Georges de Nantes, a former abbot who was suspended ''a divinis'' (from administering the sacraments) on 25 August 1966. The move ...

Education and research

Cambridge Regional College Cambridge Regional College is a mixed further education college in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. College profile The college offers courses in a wide range of subjects from hair and beauty and mechanics to media studies and science, as ...

, a further education college *

Center for Research and Communication The Center for Research and Communication (CRC) is a consultancy firm and think tank in the Philippines best known for being one of the earliest Philippine think-tanks, with expertise in business, economics, international relations, and education ...

, a Philippine think-tank that later became the University of Asia and the Pacific *

Cooperative Research Centre Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) are an Australian Federal Government program involved in Australian scientific research. The CRC programme is administered by the Commonwealth Department of Industry, Science and Resources, which provides fund ...

, a type of hybrid academic/industry research body existing in Australia *

Collaborative Research Centres Collaborative Research Centres (CRC) or Sonderforschungsbereiche (SFB) are long-term basic research Basic research, also called pure research, fundamental research, basic science, or pure science, is a type of scientific research with the a ...

, a type of publicly funded research body to advance basic research existing in Germany *

Cosumnes River College Cosumnes River College is a public community college in Sacramento, California. It opened in 1970, taking its name from the Cosumnes River, which flows a few miles to the south. As of Fall 2018, enrollment was at 14,439 students at its main and ...

, a two-year community college in Sacramento, California *

Crowley's Ridge College Crowley's Ridge College is a private Christian college in Paragould, Arkansas, United States. While the college is affiliated with the Churches of Christ, students of all religious backgrounds are welcome. The fall 2023 student population of 225 ...

, a Christian college in Paragould, Arkansas * Cyclotron Research Center and Cyclotron Resource Center, particle accelerator complex at the University of Louvain, Belgium *

Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center The Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center (abbreviated CRC, formerly known as the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center and the Georgia Tech Student Athletic Center) is part of the Georgia Tech campus. History Georgia Tech's athletic center began at its ...

, the Rec center at Georgia Tech

Companies

* California Resources Corporation, a petroleum and natural gas company *

Chicago Recording Company Chicago Recording Company, or CRC, is a recording studio in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1975. Boasting twelve studios, CRC is the largest recording company in the Midwest, and the largest independent studio in the country. History Early histo ...

, a recording studio in Chicago *

China Record Corporation China Record Corporation (CRC; ) is the Chinese government's oldest and largest record company. CRC's catalog of traditional Chinese ethnic, classical and folk music features over 60,000 releases spanning over 1,000 years of Chinese musical histo ...

, a large record company, based in Beijing *

China Resources China Resources Holdings Company Limited (), or simply China Resources, is a Chinese State-owned enterprise, state-owned Conglomerate (company), conglomerate that owns a variety of businesses in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Some of its subsidiar ...

(operated CRC Supermarkets) *

China Resources Cement China Resources Cement Holdings Limited (CRC), parented by China Resources, is a leading cement and concrete producer in Southern China. It is the largest NSP clinker and cement producer in Southern China by production capacity and the second la ...

, a cement company parented by China Resources *

Columbia Record Club Columbia House was an umbrella brand for Columbia Records' mail-order music clubs, the primary iteration of which was the Columbia Record Club, established in 1955. The Columbia House brand was introduced in the early 1970s by Columbia Records ...

, a mail-order music club offered by Columbia Records *

Computer Research Corporation The Computer Research Corporation (CRC) was an early developer of minicomputers. It was founded on July 16, 1950.Reilly 2003, p. 164. The founding owners of CRC were Floyd Steele, Donald Eckdahl, Hrant (Harold) Sarkinssian, Richard Sprague, and ...

, an early minicomputer manufacturer * CRC-Evans, a pipeline-construction company owned by Stanley Black & Decker *

CRC Health Group CRC Health Group is a subsidiary of Bain Capital that considers itself to be the "leading provider of treatment and educational programs for adults and youth" in the United States. Daniel Newby and Dr. Barry Karlin founded the company in 1995 when ...

, provider of addiction treatment and educational programs for adults and youth *

CRC Industries CRC Industries is a manufacturer and distributor of industrial chemicals for maintenance and repair of marine, electrical, industrial, automotive and aviation equipment. History It was founded in 1958 after a verbal agreement between Rocket Che ...

, a worldwide manufacturer of specialist industrial chemicals *

CRC Press The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books. Many of their books relate to engineering, science and mathematics. Their scope also includes books on business, forensics and information technol ...

, publisher, originally the Chemical Rubber Company * Customer relation centre, a common company department

Places

Costa Rica Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, as well as Maritime bo ...

(FIFA and IOC code) *

Camp Red Cloud Camp Red Cloud (CRC, ) was a United States Army camp located in the city of Uijeongbu, between Seoul and the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). CRC was transferred to the South Korean government in February 2022. The installation was renamed after ...

, a US Army Camp in Uijeongbu, South Korea

Sports

* Canadian Rally Championship, a rally racing tournament *

Canadian Ringette Championships Canadian Ringette Championships (), sometimes abbreviated CRC, is Canada's annual premiere national ringette tournament for the best ringette players and teams in the country. It encompasses three age/class divisions: Under-16 (U16), Under-19 (U19 ...

, a national ringette tournament *

Canadian Rugby Championship The Canadian Rugby Championship (CRC) () was a Canadian amateur rugby union competition, partially funded by the World Rugby. It was the highest level of men's domestic rugby in Canada. Four representative teams from regions across Canada compete ...

, a rugby union tournament * Capablanca Random Chess, a 10x8 chess variant *

Collegiate Rugby Championship The Collegiate Rugby Championship (CRC) is an annual college rugby sevens tournament. The CRC capitalized on the surge in popularity of rugby at major universities following the 2009 announcement of the addition of rugby sevens to the Summer Olymp ...

, a rugby sevens tournament

Other uses

Canada Research Chair Canada Research Chair (CRC) is a title given to certain Canadian university research professors by the Canada Research Chairs Program. Program goals The Canada Research Chair program was established in 2000 as a part of the Government of Canada ...

, Canadian university research professorships *

Costa Rican colón The colón (plural: ''colones''; sign: ₡; code: CRC) is the currency of Costa Rica. It was named after Christopher Columbus, known as ''Cristóbal Colón'' in Spanish. A colón is divided into one hundred céntimos. Symbol The symbol for t ...

, the

ISO 4217 ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines alpha codes and numeric codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individ ...

currency of Costa Rica * Crc (protein), catabolite repression control protein * Criminal record check