EC

EC or ec may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• EC Comics, an American publisher of comic books
• Electric Circus, a Canadian television program
• Eric Clapton Stratocaster, signature model guitars by Fender

Businesses and organisations

Governmental

• 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
• EC, the aircraft registration prefix for Spain

Other businesses and organizations

• EC Comics, a defunct comic book company
• Eckerd College, US
• Edinburgh College, Scotland
• Equine Canada, Canada's national horse sport federation
• Engineers Canada, a national organization that regulates the practice of engineering in Canada
• Engineering Council, formerly Engineering Council UK, a regulatory authority in the UK for registration of engineers and technicians

Places

• EC postcode area, for east central London
• Ecuador (ISO 3166-1 country code)
• East Chicago, Indiana, a city in the United States

Science, technology and mathematics

Biology and medicine

• EC50, half maximal effective concentration of a drug, antibody or toxicant
• 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
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
• 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
• Emergent cyclical theory (E-C theory), in psychology
• 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
• Evolutionary creation, the idea that God used evolution to create present-day biodiversity
• Extended coverage, in insurance
• Extra credit, in academia
• Executive Condominium, a type of housing in Singapore
• Ethiopian calendar, EC or E.C.

See also

• Embedded C++ (EC++), a programming language
• Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)