ETC

The abbreviation etc or ETC may stand for:

• et cetera, a Latin expression meaning "and other things" or "and so on"

In economics and finance:

• Early Termination Chargers, a type of penalty chargers if break the contract
• Electronic Trade Confirmation, a type of financial transaction
• Equipment trust certificate, a financial security
• Electronic Teller Card, a type of ATM card service by HSBC and Hang Seng Bank in Hong Kong and Macau
• Exchange-traded commodity, exchange-traded currency or exchange-traded certificate

In media and entertainment:

• Electronic Theatre Controls, a company that makes lighting, controls, and other electrical systems for theatres
• ETC (magazine), a leftist Swedish magazine
• Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation, the sole telecommunication service provider in Ethiopia
• The European Team Championship
• Experimental Theatre Club
• ETC Entertainment Central, a TV station in the Philippines
• Etcetera (cat), a fictional character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats
• Et Cetera, a manga comic created by Tow Nakazaki
• Etc (band), a rock band and solo performer currently based in Singapore
• Electrical Till Corporation, a fictionalized IBM in Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon
• Eric Theodore Cartman, a character on South Park
• Et Cetera (song), Ireland's Eurovision 2009 entry performed by Sinéad Mulvey and Black Daisy
• Earl Thomas Conley, an American country music singer and composer
• Etc. (album), the b-sides and rarities album of the influential punk band Jawbreaker
• Etc., a bonus disc accompanying the Pet Shop Boys' 2009 release Yes.

In science and technology:

• /etc, a computer directory found in Unix
• Eastern tent caterpillar, a species of caterpillar
• Electron transport chain, a process in mitochondria responsible for creating a proton gradient that allows ATP-formation
• Electronic throttle control, an automobile technology
• Electronic toll collection, a system for management of roadway access fees
• Electrothermal-chemical technology, a military research project involving tank projectiles
• Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers, an on-line database of information related to the geometry of triangles
• Ericsson Texture Compression, a texture compression algorithm
• Establish Temporary Connection, an operation in telecom protocol INAP / CAMEL
• Estimate to complete, a project management term
• Extended Text Composer (etc), an IBM mainframe based software text formatting utility originally published by Applied Data Research
• Extratropical cyclone, large weather systems that usually occur in the middle latitudes

Other:

• Cadillac Eldorado, a large luxury coupe made by Cadillac from 1953 to 2002. In its later years it used the name ETC
• Chief Electronics Technician, a senior enlisted rating in the US Navy and Coast Guard
• Emergency and Trauma centre, the emergency Medical Service centre of India
• Estimated time to completion, a metric of project controlling
• European Travel Commission, an organisation responsible for the promotion of Europe as a tourist destination
• EVE Time Code, one method of extending play time in the MMORPG EVE Online

See also

• Etsy