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

Government

 * 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, renamed European Economic Community

Transportation

 * EuroCity, a train service of the European inter-city rail network
 * EasyJet Europe (IATA code: EC)
 * Avialeasing (former IATA code: EC), a cargo airline
 * East Coast (train operating company), a train operating company in the UK
 * EC, the aircraft registration prefix for Spain

Education

 * Eckerd College, US
 * Edinburgh College, Scotland
 * Erskine College, US

Other businesses and organizations

 * EC Comics, a defunct comic book company
 * 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 US

Biology and medicine

 * 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

 * 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
 * Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
 * Electronic cash, an electronic payment system
 * 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
 * Erasure code, in information theory

Physics

 * Electrical conductivity, of a solution
 * EC meter (electrical conductivity meter), measures the electrical conductivity in a solution
 * Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey, an astronomical catalogue
 * Electron capture, in nuclear physics
 * Exacoulomb (EC), an SI unit for electric charge equal to 1018 coulomb

Other sciences

 * Elliptic curve, in mathematics
 * Emergent cyclical theory (E-C theory), in psychology

Other uses

 * Elimination communication, a method of toilet training
 * Extended coverage, in insurance
 * Extra credit, in academia
 * Executive Condominium, a type of housing in Singapore
 * Ethiopian calendar (EC or E.C.)