NEC (disambiguation)

As an acronym, the initials NEC may stand for:

Companies and organizations

• National Economic Commission, a deficit reduction commission during the Reagan and G. H. W. Bush administrations
• National Economic Council (United Kingdom)
• National Economic Council (Bangladesh) - the highest political authority in Bangladesh for consideration of development activities reflective of long-term national policies and objectives
• National Economists Club
• National Elections Commission, an autonomous government agency of Liberia
• National Electric Company, a Montreal electronics firm
• National Electrostatics Corporation, a manufacturer of particle accelerators
• National Empowerment Center, a US mental health advocacy and recovery organization
• National Enterprise Corporation, a state corporation of Uganda
• National Executive Committee of the UK Labour Party
• Negro Ensemble Company, New York City theatre company
• National Electricity Company (NEK EAD), a Bulgarian electricity company
• New England Coalition, and anti-nuclear organization based in Brattleboro, VT
• Niagara Escarpment Commission, an agency of the Ontario government
• NEC Corporation, a multinational company formerly called Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.
• North Eastern Council
• National Economic Council in the Executive Office of the US President

Exhibition centres

• National Exhibition Centre, a very large exhibition centre in the West Midlands, England
  • NEC Group, the British company operating the National Exhibition Centre and other venues

Educational institutions

• New England Conservatory, America's oldest independent music conservatory
• Narayana Engineering College in Andhra Pradesh, Nellore, India
• National Engineering College in Tamil Nadu, India
• National Extension College, a UK specialist in online and distance learning, based in Cambridge
• New England College, a private college in Henniker, New Hampshire
• Native Education Centre, a private college in Vancouver, Canada

Sports

• NEC Green Rockets, a rugby union club in Japan
• NEC Red Rockets, a women's volleyball team in Japan
• NEC Blue Rockets, a men's volleyball team in Japan
• N.E.C. (football club), a football club from Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• The Northeast Conference, an NCAA athletics conference
• North Egypt Conference, former Illinois high school athletic conference

Health

• No effect concentration in chemical hazards
• Necrotizing enterocolitis, a medical condition usually affecting premature infants
• Noise Equivalent Counts, a term from Positron Emission Tomography
• Not Elsewhere Classified, a sub-category frequently used in systems of disease classification such as ICD-10
• National Emission Ceiling, part of EU Directive 2001/81/EC regarding air pollution

Science and Mathematics

• Non-Euclidean crystallographic group, a group of symmetries in hyperbolic geometry
• Numerical Electromagnetics Code, a computer program used to simulate antennas

Military

• Navy Enlisted Classification
• Network Enabled Capability, a UK military doctrine, a military transformation programme linking sensors, effecters and decision-makers

Other

• Not Elsewhere Classified
• National Electrical Code, a US standard on electrical wiring and equipment
• Northeast Corridor, a rail line on the east coast of the United States
• NEC Engineering and Construction Contract, a form of construction and contract created by the Institution of Civil Engineers
• Nec, the Hungarian name for Neţeni village, Mărişelu Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania