MRC may refer to

Government

Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) The Medical Research Council (MRC) is responsible for co-coordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom. It is part of United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI), which came into operation 1 April 2018, and brings together ...

Medical Reserve Corps The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is a network in the U.S. of community-based units initiated and established by local organizations aimed to meet the public health needs of their communities. It is sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secreta ...

, a US network of volunteer organizations *

Municipalité régionale de comté The term regional county municipality or RCM (''french: municipalité régionale de comté, MRC'') is used in Quebec, Canada to refer to one of 87 county-like political entities. In some older English translations they were called county r ...

(regional county municipality), Quebec, Canada *

Military Revolutionary Committee The Military Revolutionary Committee (russian: Военно-революционный комитет, ) was the name for military organs created by the Bolsheviks under the soviets in preparation for the October Revolution (October 1917 – Marc ...

, in revolutionary Russia *

Virginia Marine Resources Commission The Virginia Marine Resources Commission is a state agency charged with overseeing Virginia's marine and aquatic resources, and its tidal waters and homelands. One of the primary functions of the Commission is to zone water areas for outdoor sw ...

* Mail recovery center, or postal

dead letter office Dead letter mail or undeliverable mail is mail that cannot be delivered to the addressee or returned to the sender. This is usually due to lack of compliance with postal regulations, an incomplete address and return address, or the inability t ...

* The Mississippi River Commission

Organizations

Malaysian Red Crescent Society The Malaysian Red Crescent Society (MRCS) ( ms, Bulan Sabit Merah Malaysia (BSMM)) is a voluntary humanitarian organization that seeks to promote humanitarian values, as well as provide service and public education in disaster management, as we ...

, a humanitarian organisation *

Media Research Center The Media Research Center (MRC), formerly known as Culture and Media Institute (CMI), is an American conservative content analysis and media watchdog group based in Reston, Virginia, and founded in 1987 by L. Brent Bozell III. The CMI promot ...

, a US organization *

Media Rating Council The Media Rating Council (MRC) is a United States-based nonprofit organization that manages accreditation for media research and rating purposes. Structure and accreditation process The MRC has seven full-time employees, and 165 member organiz ...

, a US organization * Medicare Rights Center, a US nonprofit organization * Migrant Resource Centre, an Australian organisation

Politics

Mombasa Republican Council Mombasa ( ; ) is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean. It was the first capital of the British East Africa, before Nairobi was elevated to capital city status. It now serves as the capital of Mombasa County. The town is ...

, a Kenyan separatist organization * Movement for the Rehabilitation of Citizens–Rurenzangemero, a Burundi political party * Mouvement républicain et citoyen (Citizen and Republican Movement), a French political party * Mouvement Révolutionnaire Congolais (Congolese Revolutionary Movement), a rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Sports

* Manchester Rugby Club *

Melbourne Racing Club The Melbourne Racing Club (MRC) is one of three metropolitan horse racing clubs in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It began life as the Victoria Amateur Turf Club, in 1875 with Mr. E.C. Moore as the club's first Secretary. The Dowling Forest Race ...

, a thoroughbred horse racing club *

Montreal Rowing Club The Montreal Rowing Club (MRC) is a rowing club based in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its French name is ''club d'aviron de Montréal'' (CAM). The club originally started in 1982 as an activity offered by ''le Club nautique et plein air de ...

* Mosman Rowing Club, in Sydney, Australia

Science and technology

* Maximal-ratio combining, a method of encoding signals in telecommunications *

Minimum resolvable contrast Minimum resolvable contrast (MRC) is a subjective measure of a visible spectrum sensor’s or camera's sensitivity and ability to resolve data. A snapshot image of a series of three bar targets of selected spatial frequencies and various contrast c ...

, a measurement associated with imaging devices *

Mixed raster content Mixed raster content (MRC) is a method for compressing images that contain both binary-compressible text and continuous-tone components, using image segmentation methods to improve the level of compression and the quality of the rendered image. By ...

, a method of image compression *

Molonglo Reference Catalogue of Radio Sources Molonglo Reference Catalogue of Radio Sources (MRC) is an astronomical catalog containing 12,141 discrete sources from a 408-MHz survey with the Molonglo Radio Telescope The Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) is a radio telescope oper ...

, an astronomical catalogue *

Multiple regression/correlation In statistics, the coefficient of multiple correlation is a measure of how well a given variable can be predicted using a linear function of a set of other variables. It is the correlation between the variable's values and the best predictions t ...

, a statistical method *

MRC (file format) MRC is a file format that has become an industry standard in cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) and electron tomography (ET), where the result of the technique is a three-dimensional grid of voxels each with a value corresponding to electron dens ...

, originally created for storing electron microscopy data *

Memory Reference Code The Memory Reference Code (or MRC) is a fundamental component in the design of some computers, and is "one of the most important aspects of the BIOS" for an Intel-based motherboard. It is the part of an Intel motherboard's firmware that determines ...

, a component of Intel computer firmware * Memory Recall, a function key on a calculator * .mrc, the common file extension for mIRC scripts

Scientific research

Medical Research Council (disambiguation) Medical Research Council may refer to: * Medical Research Council (Ireland), forerunner of the Health Research Board * Medical Research Council (United Kingdom), responsible for coordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom. * Na ...

, any of several national medical research organizations * MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis (MRC GIDA) *

Mekong River Commission The Mekong River Commission (MRC) is an "...inter-governmental organisation that works directly with the governments of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam to jointly manage the shared water resources and the sustainable development of the Meko ...

Other

EmArcy EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by the American Mercury Records. The name is a phonetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company. During the 1950s and 1960s, musicians such as Max Roach, Clifford Brown ...

, record label * Maricopa (Amtrak station), Arizona, US, code *

MRC (company) MRC II Distribution Company L.P., doing business as MRC (formerly Media Rights Capital), is an American film and television studio. Founded by Mordecai (Modi) Wiczyk and Asif Satchu, the company funds and produces film and television programming. ...

, US media company * Mendocino Redwood Company, a forest products company *

Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick The Modern Records Centre (MRC) is the specialist archive service of the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, located adjacent to the Central Campus Library. It was established in October 1973 and holds the world's largest archive collecti ...

, archive service * Mount Royal College, now

Mount Royal University Mount Royal University (MRU) is a public university in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. History Mount Royal University was founded by Alberta provincial charter by the Arthur Sifton government on December 16, 1910 and officially opened on September 8 ...

* ''

Multi-Racing Championship ''MRC: Multi-Racing Championship'', also known as simply , is a racing video game developed by Genki and released for the Nintendo 64 in 1997. It was published in North America and Europe by Ocean and in Japan by Imagineer. The game is compatibl ...

'', a Nintendo 64 video game * mrc, the ISO 639 code for the

Maricopa language Maricopa or Piipaash is spoken by the Native American Maricopa people on two reservations in Arizona: the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and the Gila River Indian Community. Most speakers live in Maricopa Colony. The language is co ...

* M.R. Chandrasekharan (born 1929), Indian literary critic