SEC (disambiguation)

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SEC or Sec or Seč can refer to:

[edit] Government

• United States Securities and Exchange Commission
• Securities and Exchange Commission (Philippines)
• State Examinations Commission, Ireland
• State Electricity Commission of Victoria (Australia)
• State Energy Commission of Western Australia

[edit] Religion

• Scottish Episcopal Church

[edit] Companies

• Samsung Electronics Corporation
• Solar Entertainment Corporation
• Securities Exchange Company, a company run by Charles Ponzi

[edit] Sports

• Southeastern Conference (SEC), one of the major U.S. collegiate sports conferences

[edit] Mathematics

Secant is a term in mathematics. It comes from the Latin secare (to cut). It can refer to:

• a secant line, in geometry
• the secant method, a root-finding algorithm in numerical analysis, based on secant lines to graphs of functions
• the trigonometric function, reciprocal to the cosine.

[edit] Science

• sec., non-standard abbreviation for second
• Scale Expanding Cosmos (also known as Expanding Spacetime Theory, EST), is a non-standard cosmology model developed by the Swedish-American physicist Johan Masreliez.
• Social evolutionary computation
• Space Environment Center
• single error correction, see error detection and correction
• Size exclusion chromatography
• Simple Electronic Computer, a computer circa 1950
• Sec pathway, in biology, a major route of protein translocation across cell membranes
• Solar Energy Conversion, the conversion of solar energy to electricity
• Standard three-letter abbreviation for selenocysteine
• Spatial Energy Coherence
• sinusoidal endothelial cell

[edit] Popular culture

• Dalek Sec, from the television series Doctor Who.

[edit] Other

• Sec (wine), a French term used to indicate the sweetness level of a wine.

• A "sec" is a generic amount of time, not linked with the unit of time measurement "seconds".

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