Tech

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tech is an abbreviation for technology, and terms that are derived from it

• • technical support, services providing assistance with technology products
  • techno, a form of electronic dance music
• a technical problem, in airline jargon e.g. "the plane's gone tech"
• a technician, a worker in a field of technology e.g. "We may need to call in a tech"
• Tech 2 (or Tech II), an electronic On-board diagnostics tool for General Motors cars
• Tech N9ne (born 1971), rapper from Kansas City, Missouri
• Tech metal a subgenre of Heavy Metal
• The Tech River in France
• Ghettotech, the genre of Miami bass-techno fusion
• Tech Mo'r, a member of Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes
• A nickname for the Church of Scientology's teachings, dubbed Scientology Technology; also referred to as LRH (L. Ron Hubbard) technology as well
• USS Tech Jr. (SP-1761), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission during the autumn of 1917
• USS Tech III (SP-1055), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from August to October 1917

Tech is used as a nickname for many universities, including:

• California Institute of Technology, also called "Caltech", a university in Pasadena, California
• Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, in Gembloux, Wallonia, Belgium
• Georgia Institute of Technology, also called "Georgia Tech", a university in Atlanta, Georgia
• Illinois Institute of Technology, also called "Illinois Tech", a university in Chicago, Illinois
• Louisiana Tech University, also called "Louisiana Tech" or "La Tech", a university in Ruston, Louisiana
  • Tech (mascot), the fawn and white lineage of the school's English bulldog mascots
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also called "MIT", a university in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Mid-Florida Tech, a public adult vocational school in Orlando, Florida
• Miller-Motte Tech, a chain of for-profit technical colleges throughout the Southern United States
• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, also called "NMTech", a university in Socorro, New Mexico
• Northwestern University's Technological Institute
• Ogden-Weber Tech
• Texas Tech University, also called "Texas Tech", a university in Lubbock, Texas
• Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England (a politically incorrect reference to the school's previous guise)
• Virginia Tech, in full Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a university in Blacksburg, Virginia
• The term TeCH is also used in Northern Ireland to refer to Institutes for Further and Higher Education (IFHE). (See; Belfast Institute for Further and Higher Education)
• Brooklyn Technical High School, a New York City public high school