TEC may refer to:

Education

Technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in medicine, science, ...

, 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) The Episcopal Church, based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop o ...

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 u ...

, an Indian government agency * Tsunami Evaluation Coalition, 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 Training and enterprise councils (TECs) were local bodies established in England and Wales in the early 1990s to administer publicly funded training programmes, replacing the former Manpower Services Commission. The first group of 19 TECs were lau ...

, a former type of UK training program administrator * Topographic Engineering Center, former name of the US

Army Geospatial Center The Army Geospatial Center (AGC) (formerly Topographic Engineering Center (TEC)) is a Major Subordinate Command of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. It is located in Alexandria, Virginia, within the Humphreys Engineering Center adjacent ...

Treaty establishing the European Community The Treaty of Rome, or EEC Treaty (officially the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community), brought about the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC), the best known of the European Communities (EC). The treaty was signe ...

, 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 Technician third grade (abbreviated T/3 or Tec 3) was a rank of the United States Army from 1942 to 1948. The rank was created to recognize enlisted soldiers with special technical skills, but who were not trained as combat leaders. History ...

, 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 The I.G. Brown Training and Education Center is a detachment of the Air National Guard Readiness Center and is located at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base near Knoxville, Tennessee, Tennessee. The TEC conducts an average of 16 Enlisted Profes ...

, Knoxville, Tennessee

People

Nechama Tec Nechama Tec (née Bawnik) (born 15 May 1931) is a Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in sociology at Columbia University, where she studied and worked with the sociologist Daniel Bell, and ...

, 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) Tyrosine-protein kinase Tec is a tyrosine kinase that in humans is encoded by the ''TEC'' gene. Tec kinase is expressed in hematopoietic, liver, and kidney cells and plays an important role in T-helper cell processes. Tec kinase is the name-givin ...

, a human gene *

Thermoelectric cooling Thermoelectric cooling uses the Peltier effect to create a heat flux at the junction of two different types of materials. A Peltier cooler, heater, or thermoelectric heat pump is a solid-state active heat pump which transfers heat from one side o ...

, 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 Total electron content (TEC) is an important descriptive quantity for the ionosphere of the Earth. TEC is the total number of electrons integrated between two points, along a tube of one meter squared cross section, i.e., the electron columnar n ...

, 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) The Tech (; ca, Tec ) is a river in southern France, very close to the French-Spanish border. It runs through a valley in the Pyrénées-Orientales, in the former Roussillon, and is long. Its source is the Parcigoule Valley, elevation , and it ...

( ca, Tec, link=no, in Pyrénées-Orientales ''département'', southern France *

TEC-9 The Intratec TEC-9, TEC-DC9, KG-99 and AB-10 are a line of blowback-operated semi-automatic pistols. They were developed by Intratec, an American subsidiary of the Swedish firearms manufacturer Interdynamic AB. Introduced in 1984, the TEC-9 was ...

, a semi-automatic pistol * SV TEC, a Dutch association football club *

Terik language Terik (Nyang’ori) is a Kalenjin language of Kenya. The language of the Terik is closely related to the Elgon languages Pok and especially Bong'om. Part of the vocabulary is related exclusively to the Elgon languages, for example words like '' ...

(ISO 639:tec), spoken in Kenya *

Toshiba TEC Corporation , commonly known as Toshiba and stylized as TOSHIBA, is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its diversified products and serv ...

, a subsidiary of Toshiba *

Tower en route control In United States aviation, tower en route control (TEC) is a collection of published low-altitude, short-distance IFR routes through large metropolitan areas that require no level of air traffic control higher than approach-control facilities. Ove ...

, 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 A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. They often collect information to solve crimes by talking to witnesses and informants, collecting physical evidence, or searching records in databases. This leads th ...

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