SEC

SEC, Sec, or Seč may refer to:

Sports

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

Government

• U.S. 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
• Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan
• Securities and Exchange Commission (Nigeria)

Education

• St Edmunds College, Ipswich

Companies

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

Mathematics

Secant is a term in mathematics derived from the Latin secare ("to cut"). It may refer to:

• a secant line, in geometry
• the secant variety, in algebraic 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

Science

• Social evolutionary computation
• Space Weather Prediction Center, also known as the Space Enviornment Center
• single error correction, in error detection and correction
• Size-exclusion chromatography
• 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
• Sinusoidal endothelial cell

Religion

• Scottish Episcopal Church

Popular culture

• Dalek Sec, from the television series Doctor Who.

Other

• An abbreviation for second
• Sec (wine), a French term used to indicate the sweetness level of a wine.
• In music, sec, an abbreviation of secco.