TEC
Encyclopedia
Companies and organizations
- TEC (transport)TEC (transport)Société Régionale Wallonne du Transport , is responsible for the supervision, strategic planning and marketing of a group of five regional public transport companies branded as TEC or "Transport En Commun" in Wallonia, Belgium. It is primarily a bus operator, but also operates the Charleroi tram...
, a Belgian company - Telecommunication Engineering CenterTelecommunication Engineering CenterThe Telecommunication Engineering Center 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 of standards, generic requirements, interface...
, an Indian government agency - Toyo Engineering CorporationToyo Engineering Corporationis an engineering, procurement and construction company serving mainly the hydrocarbons and petrochemical sectors worldwide.It was established in 1961...
, a Japanese company - Tsunami Evaluation CoalitionTsunami Evaluation CoalitionThe Tsunami Evaluation Coalition 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 tsunamis of 26 December 2004.The TEC had over 50 member...
, a coalition created to evaluate the response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake - Episcopal Church in the United States of America, also known as The Episcopal Church
- Transatlantic Economic CouncilTransatlantic Economic CouncilThe Transatlantic Economic Council, or commonly called TEC, is a body set up between the United States and European Union to direct economic co-operation between the two economies.-Establishment and chairmanship:...
, an agreement between the U.S. and EU - Technology Evaluation CentersTechnology Evaluation CentersTechnology Evaluation Centers is an online media company that provides information technology research and consulting services. TEC publishes analyst research and provides advisory services for enterprise software selection....
, an online media company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec (Canada) - Tomorrow Entrepreneurs Club , a club formed to contribute to building Vietnamese modern entrepreneuers generation in new millennium (Foreign Trade University, Vietnam)
Schools
- Tallinn English CollegeTallinn English CollegeTallinn English College is a co-educational general education school in Tallinn, Estonia with in depth education in the English language. It has elementary, middle and senior levels with students aged from 7 to 18.-History:...
- Tenali Engineering CollegeTenali Engineering CollegeTenali Engineering College is located near Tenali, Andhra Pradesh, India, offering Bachelor's of Engineering courses affiliated to world renowned and recognized and approved by All India Council for Technical Education AICTE...
- Trichy Engineering CollegeTrichy Engineering CollegeTrichy Engineering College is a College of Engineering located in Konalai, a village on the Tiruchirappalli to Chennai national highway, in Tamil Nadu, India. It was established in 1998. It is affiliated with Anna University of Technology, Tiruchirappalli...
- Nickname for Costa Rica Institute of TechnologyCosta Rica Institute of TechnologyThe Costa Rica Institute of Technology, , also known as "ITCR" or "TEC", is a public educational institute in Cartago, Costa Rica....
- Nickname for Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher EducationMonterrey Institute of Technology and Higher EducationThe Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education commonly shortened as Monterrey Institute of Technology or Monterrey Tech is one of the largest private, nonsectarian and coeducational multi-campus universities in...
People
- Nechama TecNechama TecNechama Tec 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 highly-regarded sociologist Daniel Bell, and is a noted Holocaust scholar...
, Professor Emerita of SociologySociologySociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
at the University of ConnecticutUniversity of ConnecticutThe admission rate to the University of Connecticut is about 50% and has been steadily decreasing, with about 28,000 prospective students applying for admission to the freshman class in recent years. Approximately 40,000 prospective students tour the main campus in Storrs annually...
, Holocaust scholar, and author of the book Defiance on which the 2008 film of the same nameDefiance (2008 film)Defiance is a 2008 World War II era film written, produced, and directed by Edward Zwick, set during the occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany. The film is an account of the Bielski partisans, a group led by three Jewish brothers who saved and recruited Jews in Poland during the Second World War...
is based. - Roland TecRoland TecRoland 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 perfection....
, American writer and movie director.
Other uses
- TEC-9, a 9mm firearm
- TEC (gene)TEC (gene)Tyrosine-protein kinase Tec is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the TEC gene.-Interactions:TEC has been shown to interact with GNA12, Janus kinase 2, CD117, Suppressor of cytokine signaling 1, ARHGEF12 and DOK1.-Further reading:...
, a human gene - Thermoelectric coolingThermoelectric coolingThermoelectric cooling uses the Peltier effect to create a heat flux between 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 of the device to the other side against the...
, a process using the Peltier effect to create a heat flux between two - Trunk-Line Electric Car, an electric multiple unit of KorailKorailKorea Railroad Corporation , promoted as Korail , is the national railroad operator in South Korea.Korail operates passenger and freight trains throughout South Korea...
- Threshold Exceeds Condition, a value used in computer hard disk evaluation
- Topographic Engineering Center, former name of the Army Geospatial CenterArmy Geospatial CenterThe Army Geospatial Center is a Major Subordinate Command of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. It is located in Alexandria, Virginia, within the adjacent to the Fort Belvoir military reservation...
, a research center of the United States Army Corps of Engineers - Total electron contentTotal electron contentTotal electron content is an important descriptive quantity for the ionosphere of the Earth. TEC is the total number of electrons present along a path between two points, with units of electrons per square meter, where 1016 electrons/m² = 1 TEC unit .TEC is significant in determining the...
, a descriptive quantity of the Earth's ionosphere - Tower en route controlTower en route controlIn United States aviation, tower en route control 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....
, a collection of air-traffic routes - Treaty establishing the European Community, a name used for the Treaties of Rome
- Slang term for a detectiveDetectiveA detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes"...
- Transient Erythroblastopenia, condition in which new red blood cells stop appearing, typically found in children.