ESC may refer to:

Education

* Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, a type of French business school * Edison State College, now Florida SouthWestern State College * Empire State College of the State University of New York *

English Subject Centre Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy) is a British charity and professional membership scheme promoting excellence in higher education. It advocates evidence-based teaching methods and awards fellowships as professional recogniti ...

, a British English-language educational organization * Equatorial College School, a school in the Ibanda District of Uganda * European School, Culham, in Oxfordshire, England *

European Solidarity Centre The European Solidarity Centre ( pl, Europejskie Centrum Solidarności) is a museum and library in Gdańsk, Poland, devoted to the history of Solidarity, the Polish trade union and civil resistance movement, and other opposition movements of ...

, a museum and library in Gdańsk, Poland * European Solidarity Corps, volunteering program by the European Commission * European Space Camp

Government and politics

* Environmental Study Conference, U.S. House of Representatives * Economic and Social Council (Arab League) * European Social Charter * Essential Services Commission (Victoria) * Essential Services Commission of South Australia

Science and engineering

Organizations

Electrical Safety Council Electrical Safety First (formerly the Electrical Safety Council, or ESC) is a registered UK charity working with all sectors of the electrical industry as well as local and central government to reduce deaths and injuries caused by electrical a ...

, now Electrical Safety First, a British charity * European Society of Cardiology * European Society of Criminology

Computing

* Esc key on a keyboard *

Escape character In computing and telecommunication, an escape character is a character (computing), character that invokes an alternative interpretation on the following characters in a character sequence. An escape character is a particular case of metacharac ...

in the C0 control code set * Escape sequence *

Extended static checking Extended static checking (ESC) is a collective name in computer science for a range of techniques for statically checking the correctness of various program constraints. ESC can be thought of as an extended form of type checking. As with type check ...

Concepts and technologies

Einstein summation convention In mathematics, especially the usage of linear algebra in Mathematical physics, Einstein notation (also known as the Einstein summation convention or Einstein summation notation) is a notational convention that implies summation over a set of i ...

* Electronic speed control *

Electronic stability control Electronic stability control (ESC), also referred to as electronic stability program (ESP) or dynamic stability control (DSC), is a computerized technology that improves a vehicle's stability by detecting and reducing loss of traction ( skiddi ...

* Embryonic stem cell *

Environmental stress cracking Environmental Stress Cracking (ESC) is one of the most common causes of unexpected brittle failure of thermoplastic (especially amorphous) polymers known at present. According to ASTM D883, stress cracking is defined as "an external or intern ...

Sports

* Ekenäs Sport Club, a football club in Finland * Empire Supporters Club, a fan club of the New York Red Bulls * Equitable Stroke Control, in golf * Essex Senior Cup, an English football competition * Essex Skating Club, in New Jersey * European Shooting Confederation

Other uses

* Esc, Aesc or Oisc of Kent, King of Kent, 474–516 AD *

Delta County Airport Delta County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport located southwest of the central business district of Escanaba, a city in Delta County, Michigan, United States. It offers limited commercial service, which is subsidized by the Essenti ...

, Escanaba, Michigan, by IATA code *

The Electric Swing Circus The Electric Swing Circus are a six piece electro swing band based in Birmingham, England. The line up features Vicki Olivia ( vocals), Fe Salomon ( vocals), Tom Hyland ( guitar), Rashad Gregory (samples, MPC & synths) and Patrick Wreford (ele ...

, a British band * Electronic Systems Center, a former product center of the United States Air Force *

Energy Savings Certificate In environmental policy, white certificates are documents certifying that a certain reduction of energy consumption has been attained. In most applications, the white certificates are tradable and combined with an obligation to achieve a certain ...

, a document certifying that a certain reduction of energy consumption has been obtained *

Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...

Expeditionary Sustainment Command The Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), commonly referred to as an "ESC", is a United States Army logistics headquarters. Sustainment is "the provision of logistics, financial management Financial management is the business function concerne ...

* Extreme Sports Channel, a television channel *

Guggenmos ESC The Guggenmos ESC is a German high-wing, single-place, rigid-wing hang glider that was designed by World Hang Gliding Champion Josef Guggenmos and produced by his company Drachenbau Josef Guggenmos.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World ...

, a German hang glider