TEC may refer to:

Education

* Technology, the subject itself of technology taught at schools * Tertiary Education Commission (disambiguation) *''

The East Carolinian ''The East Carolinian'' is the campus newspaper of East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a co ...

'', a campus newspaper of East Carolina University

Governmental and public organizations

* The Episcopal Church (United States) *

Telecommunication Engineering Center The Telecommunication Engineering Centre is a body under telecom commission and a nodal agency of the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India which is responsible for drawing up ...

, an Indian government agency *

Tsunami Evaluation Coalition The Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC) was a unique learning and accountability initiative in the relief and development sector. It was first established in February 2005 to carry out joint evaluations of the response to the Asian earthquake and ...

, a coalition created to evaluate the response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake *

Transatlantic Economic Council The Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) is a body set up between the United States and European Union to direct economic cooperation between the two economies. Establishment and chairmanship The TEC was established by an agreement signed on Apri ...

, an agreement between the US and EU * Training and enterprise council, a former type of UK training program administrator * Topographic Engineering Center, former name of the US Army Geospatial Center * Treaty establishing the European Community, a former name for the principal EU Treaty *

Transitional Executive Council The Transitional Executive Council (TEC) was a multiparty body in South Africa that was established by law to facilitate the transition to democracy, in the lead-up to the country's first non-racial election in April 1994. As part of the multi ...

, a government body that helped facilitate South Africa's transition to democracy in 1994

Military

* TEC-3 or Technician third grade, United States Army rank * TEC-4 or Technician fourth grade, United States Army rank * TEC-5 or Technician fifth grade, United States Army rank * I.G. Brown Air National Guard Training and Education Center, Knoxville, Tennessee

People

* Nechama Tec, Professor Emerita at the University of Connecticut *

Roland Tec Roland Tec is an American writer and movie director. His 1997 film '' All the Rage'' is widely considered a hallmark of the Queer Indie Film Movement of the '90s for what was then its unprecedented critical view of A-list gay male culture of perfec ...

, American writer and movie director

Schools and colleges

* Trichy Engineering College, in Konalai, Tamil Nadu, India *

Costa Rica Institute of Technology The Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC) ( es, Tecnológico de Costa Rica) is a university in Costa Rica specializing in engineering and advanced science and research, modeled as an institute of technology. Its main campus is located in the Du ...

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and coeducational private university based in ...

, in Monterrey, Mexico

Science, engineering and medicine

* TEC (gene), a human gene * Thermoelectric cooling, a process to create a heat flux between two different materials *

Time error correction (TEC) The utility frequency, (power) line frequency (American English) or mains frequency (British English) is the nominal frequency of the oscillations of alternating current (AC) in a wide area synchronous grid transmitted from a power station to th ...

Transient erythroblastopenia of childhood Transient erythroblastopenia of childhood (TEC) is a slowly developing anemia of early childhood characterized by gradual onset of pallor. Signs and symptoms Individuals with TEC have a median age of presentation of 18–26 months; however, the d ...

, a medical condition *

Threshold Exceeds Condition Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T., often written as SMART) is a monitoring system included in computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). Its primary function is to detect and report various indica ...

, a value used in computer hard disk evaluation * Total electron content, a descriptive quantity of the Earth's ionosphere *

Triethylcholine Triethylcholine is a drug which mimics choline, and causes failure of cholinergic transmission by interfering with synthesis of acetylcholine in nerve endings. Effects Triethylcholine produces a slowly developing neuromuscular weakness ...

, a drug * TEC, a Russian abbreviation for

thermal power stations in Russia and Soviet Union The first large peat-fired thermal power station in Russia was built on a location about 80 km away from Moscow, in the place of the current city of Elektrogorsk, during 1912-1914. It was called ''Elektroperedacha'' (literally " electric power tr ...

with combined heat and power plant

Other uses

* Tech (river) ( ca, Tec, link=no, in Pyrénées-Orientales ''département'', southern France * TEC-9, a semi-automatic pistol * SV TEC, a Dutch association football club * Terik language (ISO 639:tec), spoken in Kenya * Toshiba TEC Corporation, a subsidiary of Toshiba * Tower en route control, a collection of air-traffic routes * TRACE Expert City, an office complex in Sri Lanka * Transport En Commun, a brand name of Belgian transport company ''Société Régionale Wallonne du Transport'' * Turkish Engine Center * Slang term for a detective {{disambiguation, surname