CE

CE, Ce or ce may refer to:

• Common Era, also Christian Era or Current Era; secular alternative to Anno Domini (AD)
• Cerium, chemical element with symbol Ce

Titles

• Chief Executive, administrative head of some regions
• County executive, the head of the executive branch of county government, common in the United States
• Construction Electrician (US Navy), a Seabee occupational rating in the U.S. Navy

Organizations and companies

• Council of Europe, an international organization of 47 member states in the European region
• Comunità Europea (Italian for the European Community)
• Communauté Européenne (French for the European Community)
• CE marking, a stylized "CE" (, for Conformité Européenne) placed on products to signify conformance with European Union regulations (resembles China Export marking - can therefore easily be mistaken for each other)
• Church of England, the state church of the United Kingdom and mother church of the Anglican Communion, also referred to as the C of E
• Concord EFS, Inc., stock symbol CE on the New York Stock Exchange
• Nationwide Airlines (South Africa), IATA airline designator CE; based in South Africa
• Combustion Engineering, a former American manufacturer of power systems; sometimes given as C-E
• CE Delft, a non-profit environmental consultancy based in Delft, the Netherlands

Science

• Capillary electrophoresis, a technique used to separate ionic species by their charge and frictional forces
• Cholesteryl ester
• CE phase for the phase between carrier and envelope of an electromagnetic wave, cf. Frequency comb

Entertainment

• cê, a 2006 album by Caetano Veloso
• Collector's edition or special edition, used with special editions of software and movies

Computing and electronics

• Central European, an alternate name for Windows-1250
• Computer engineering
• Congestion Experienced, a protocol element of the Explicit Congestion Notification data networking protocol
• Consumer electronics
• Customer edge, a router at the customer premises that is connected to a Multi-protocol Label Switching network
• Customer engineer
• Windows CE, a version of the Windows operating system designed for mobile devices
• An abbreviation for Cheat Engine, a system debugger and cheating tool.
• An abbreviation for Chip Enable used on some memory and controller devices.
• Computably enumerable, a property of some sets in computability theory.

Places

• County Clare, Ireland, vehicle registration plate code
• Sri Lanka, FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO country code CE, from the former name, Ceylon
• Ceará, a state in Brazil, ISO 3166-2:BR code
• Province of Caserta, a province of Italy, ISO 3166-2:IT code

Miscellanea

• Civil engineering
• Civil engineer
• Colonel Ebirt, former mascot for the College of William & Mary
• Common Entrance Examination, tests used by independent schools in the UK
• Conductive education, an educational system developed for people with motor disorders
• Continuing education, a broad spectrum of post-secondary learning activities and programs
• Copy editing, often abbreviated as ce
• Customer equity
• Chechen language (ISO 639-1 language code)
• Counterexample
• Halo: Combat Evolved, a video game
• Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination, a standardized examination from 1974 to 2011
• Chaotic Evil, an alignment in the tabletop game Dungeons and Dragons
• CE mark - marking on products sold in European
• China Export - resembles CE mark - can therefore easily be mistaken for each other

See also

• Œ (OE ligature)