SEC or Sec may refer to:

Companies

Solar Entertainment Corporation Solar Entertainment Corporation (also known as Solar Entertainment, and simply known as Solar or SEC) is a Mass media in the Philippines, Filipino Mass media, media company based in Makati, Philippines. Founded and owned by the brothers, Wilso ...

, a Filipino media company * Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., an electronics company

Government

* Securities and Exchange Commission (disambiguation) **

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street crash of 1929. Its primary purpose is to enforce laws against market m ...

State Electricity Commission of Victoria The State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SEC, SECV or ECV) is a government-owned electricity company in Victoria, Australia. Originally established to generate electricity from the state's reserves of brown coal, the SEC gradually monopoli ...

, Australia *

State Examinations Commission The State Examinations Commission () is the organisation that replaced the Examinations Branch of the Department of Education (Ireland), Department of Education in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. History The State Examinations Commission is a Sta ...

, Ireland * State-owned Enterprises Commission, Taiwan

Science

*Saga execution coordinator, a component of the

saga interaction pattern Long-running transactions (also known as the saga interaction pattern) are computer database transactions that avoid locks on non-local resources, use compensation to handle failures, potentially aggregate smaller ACID An acid is a molecu ...

in computer science *, the Sec secretion system in bacteria * Secant function, in mathematics *

Size-exclusion chromatography Size-exclusion chromatography, also known as molecular sieve chromatography, is a chromatography, chromatographic method in which molecules in Solution (chemistry), solution are separated by their Chemical structure, shape, and in some cases molec ...

Space Weather Prediction Center The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), named the Space Environment Center (SEC) until 2007, is a laboratory and service center of the US National Weather Service (NWS), part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), loc ...

, formerly Space Environment Center *

Selenocysteine Selenocysteine (symbol Sec or U, in older publications also as Se-Cys) is the 21st proteinogenic amino acid. Selenoproteins contain selenocysteine residues. Selenocysteine is an analogue of the more common cysteine with selenium in place of the ...

, an amino acid *Secondary Electron Conduction Tube, part of the

Apollo TV camera The Apollo program used several television cameras in its space missions in the late 1960s and 1970s; some of these Apollo TV cameras were also used on the later Skylab and Apollo–Soyuz Test Project missions. These cameras varied in design, ...

SEC experiment The Scattering Experiments Chamber (SEC) experiment is a permanent experimental setup located in the ISOLDE, ISOLDE facility at CERN. The station facilitates diversified reaction experiments, especially for studying low-lying Resonance, resonances ...

(Scattering Experiment Chambers) at CERN

Sports

Southeastern Conference The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central United States, South Central and Southeastern United States. Its 16 members in ...

, one of the major U.S. collegiate sports conferences * Southeast Conference in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association *

Speedway European Championship The Individual Speedway European Championship is an annual individual speedway event organized by the European Motorcycle Union (UEM) to determine the champion of Europe. The competition was founded in 2001 and was initially staged as a one-off ...

, motorcycle speedway competition

Places

* Seč (disambiguation), places in Central Europe

Other uses

Dalek Sec The Daleks ( ) are a fictional extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial race of extremely xenophobic mutants principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who''. They were conceived by writer Terry Na ...

, a ''Doctor Who'' character *

Scottish Episcopal Church The Scottish Episcopal Church (; ) is a Christian denomination in Scotland. Scotland's third largest church, the Scottish Episcopal Church has 303 local congregations. It is also an Ecclesiastical province#Anglican Communion, ecclesiastical provi ...

* Sec (wine), a French term used to indicate the sweetness level of a wine *

SEC Armadillo The SEC Armadillo (originally known as the Clyde Auditorium) is an auditorium located near the River Clyde, in Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of three venues on the Scottish Event Campus, which includes the SEC Centre and the OVO Hydro. History ...

(part of Scottish Event Campus), an auditorium located near the River Clyde, in Glasgow, Scotland. *

SEC Centre The SEC Centre (originally known as the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre until 2017) is Scotland's largest Exhibition center, exhibit ...

(part of Scottish Event Campus), Scotland's largest exhibition centre, located in Glasgow, Scotland. *''Secco'', a

musical term A variety of musical terms is encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes. Most of the terms are Italian, in accordance with the Italian origins of many European musical conventions. Sometimes, the special musical meanings ...

meaning "dry", "without resonance" or "quick" *

Second The second (symbol: s) is a unit of time derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes, and finally to 60 seconds each (24 × 60 × 60 = 86400). The current and formal definition in the International System of U ...

, a unit of time *

Section (typography) In books and documents, a section is a subdivision, especially of a chapter. In fiction, sections often represent scenes, and accordingly the space separating them is sometimes also called a scene break. Scene breaks represent gaps in story t ...

, a subdivision, especially of a chapter, in books and documents * St Edmund's College, Ipswich *

Mercedes-Benz SEC The Mercedes-Benz W126 is a series of passenger cars made by Daimler-Benz AG. It was marketed as the second generation of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, and manufactured in Sedan (automobile), sedan/saloon (1979–1991) as well as coupé (1981–199 ...