# 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

## Businesses and organisations
### 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

## Science and technology
### 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 10$^{18}$ coulomb

### Other sciences

* Elliptic curve, in mathematics
* Emergent cyclical theory (E-C theory), in psychology
* Electronic cigarette, or e-cigarette

## 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.)