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DR, Dr, dr, or variation, may refer to:

  • Doctor (title), a person who has obtained a doctoral degree or a courtesy title for a medical or dental practitioner

Businesses

  • DR Handmade Strings, a manufacturer of guitar strings
  • DR (broadcaster), a Danish government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company
  • D/R or Design Research, a retail lifestyle store chain (1953–1978)
  • DR Motor Company, an Italian automobile company
  • Depositary receipt, negotiable financial instrument issued by a bank to represent a foreign company's publicly traded securities
  • Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany), former German railway company
  • Digital Research, a defunct software company
  • Duane Reade, a New York pharmacy chain
  • Ruili Airlines (IATA code DR), a Chinese airline

Places

  • Dominican Republic, a country on the eastern portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola
  • Dadar railway station, Mumbai, India (Central railway station code)

Science and technology

  • Dead reckoning, the process of estimating a global position
  • Demand response, a method of managing consumer consumption of electricity
  • Disaster recovery, secondary site to switchover or failover to if the primary site does not survive
  • Designated Router, a concept used in routing protocol OSPF
  • Design rationale, an explicit documentation of the reasons behind decisions made when designing a system or artifact
  • Digital radiography, a form of x-ray imaging, where digital X-ray sensors are used instead of traditional photographic film
  • Dram, a unit of mass and volume
  • Dynamic range, the ratio between the largest and smallest possible values of a changeable quantity, such as ind sound and light
  • Dose–response relationship, describes the change in effect on an organism caused by differing levels of exposure
  • Dreieckrechner, a German flight computer manufactured as of the 1930s (model DR2) and the 1940s (model DR3)

Other uses

  • Dalereckoning, a fictional numbering of years in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons game
  • Data Room, a space used for housing data, usually of a secure or privileged nature
  • Death row, a prison or section of a prison that houses prisoners awaiting execution
  • Democratic Republic, designating a country that is both a democracy and a republic
  • Derealization, an alteration in the perception of the external world such that it seems unreal
  • Diário da República, the official gazette of the government of Portugal
  • Disaster recovery, policies, tools and procedures for recovering IT or technology systems supporting critical business functions
  • Douay–Rheims Bible, a translation of the Christian Bible
  • Danganronpa, a video game series and anime commonly known by this name by fans.
  • Dress rehearsal (disambiguation), a full-scale rehearsal where the actors and/or musicians perform every detail of the performance prior to its first public performance
  • Diminishing returns
  • Deltarune, a game by Toby Fox

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: DR para niños

  • Digital recorder (disambiguation)
  • Doctor (disambiguation)
  • All pages beginning with dr
  • All pages with titles beginning with DR
  • All pages with titles containing DR
  • RD (disambiguation)
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