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EC or ec may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- Early Childhood, the least restrictive rating of the Entertainment Software Rating Board
- Electric Circus, a Canadian television program
- Eric Clapton Stratocaster, signature model guitars by Fender
Businesses and organisations
Governmental
- Election Commission of India
- Environment and Climate Change Canada, a Canadian federal government department
- European Commission, the executive body of the European Union
- European Council, the European Union institution comprising the college of heads of state of government
- European Communities, one of the three pillars of the EU
- European Community, a significant component of the European Union from 1993 to 2009
- European Economic Community, informally, the European Community, an economic union from 1958 to 1993
Transportation
- EuroCity, a train service of the European inter-city rail network
- Avialeasing (IATA code), a cargo airline
- East Coast (train operating company), a train operating company in the UK
Other businesses and organizations
- Edinburgh College, Scotland
- Equine Canada, Canada's national horse sport federation
- Eckerd College, US
- EC Comics, a defunct comic book company
Places
- EC postcode area, for east central London
- Ecuador (ISO 3166-1 country code)
Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology and medicine
- EC50, half maximal effective concentration of a drug, antibody or toxicant
- Embryonic carcinoma cells, a primitive model to study embryonic developmental before embryonic stem cells could be isolated reliably
- Emergency contraception
- Endothelial cell
- Enterochromaffin cell
- Entorhinal cortex, memory center in the brain
- Enzyme Commission number, EC number, used for the numerical classification of enzymes
- Extracellular
Chemistry
- Electrical conductivity of a solution
- EC meter (electrical conductivity meter), measures the electrical conductivity in a solution
- Ethylene carbonate, an ester and a popular solvent in lithium-ion batteries
- European Community number (EC-No, or EC#), determined by the European Commission for identifying chemicals
Computing
- .ec, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Ecuador
- eC (programming language), a programming language adding object-oriented features, dynamic modules and reflection to C
- Electronic cash, an electronic payment system popular especially in Germany
- Evolutionary computation, computing that utilises evolution to automatically find solutions to formally defined problems
- Embedded controller, a microcontroller in computers that handles various system tasks that the operating system does not handle
- ExpressCard, an interface connecting peripheral devices to a computer, usually a laptop
Other sciences
- Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey, an astronomical catalogue
- Electron capture, in nuclear physics
- Elliptic curve, in mathematics
- Erasure code, in information theory
- Exacoulomb (EC), an SI unit for electric charge equal to 1018 coulomb
Other uses
- Eastern Caribbean dollar, sometimes abbreviated EC$
- Elimination communication, a method of toilet training
- Extended coverage, in insurance
- Extra credit, in academia
- Executive Condominium, a type of housing in Singapore
See also
- Embedded C++ (EC++), a programming language
- Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)
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