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
- State Energy Commission of Western Australia
[edit] Companies
- Samsung Electronics Corporation
[edit] Sports
- Southeastern Conference (SEC), a major NCAA conference
[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 trigonometric function called secant
- the secant method, a root-finding algorithm in numerical analysis
[edit] Science
- sec., abbreviation for second
- Social evolutionary computation
- Space Environment Center
- single error correction, see error correcting code
- 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
[edit] Popular Culture
- Dalek Sec, from the television series Doctor Who.