Editing HEC

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'''HEC''' or '''Hec''' may refer to:
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==Businesses and organizations==
* [[Hautes Études Commerciales (disambiguation)]], French-language business schools
* [[Higher Education Commission (disambiguation)]]
* [[Hongkong Electric Company]]
* [[Hotel Ezra Cornell]], a student-run hospitality leadership conference 
* [[Hydro Tasmania]] (formerly ''Hydro-Electric Commission'')
* [[Hyundai Engineering (HEC)]], a Korean firm founded in 1974

==Science, technology and mathematics==
===Computing and communications===
* [[Hollerith Electronic Computer]], Britain's first mass-produced business computer
* [[Header Error Control]], a method used in some telecommunication protocols
* [[HDMI Ethernet Channel]], an audiovisual technology

===Medicine===
* [[HEC syndrome]], a condition
* [[Human equivalent concentration]]
* [[Hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp]], a test of insulin resistance

===Other uses in science and mathematics===
* [[Habitable Exoplanets Catalog]], in astronomy
* [[Hyperelliptic curve]], in algebraic geometry
* [[Hydroxyethyl cellulose]], a thickening agent
* HEC-meeting, the [[Heart of Europe Bio-Crystallography Meeting]]

==Other uses==
* The title character of ''[[Hec Ramsey]]'', a television Western (1972–1974)
* [[Heckington railway station]], England; National Rail station code HEC

==People with the hypocorism ''Hec''==
===Sportspeople===
* [[Hec Crighton]] (fl. 1952–1986), Canadian gridiron football coach
* [[Hec Cyre]] (1901–1971), Canadian gridiron football player
* [[Hec Davidson]] (1908–1976), Australian-rules footballer
* [[Hector Dyer]] (1910-1990), American sprinter
* [[Hec Edmundson]] (1886–1964), American basketball coach
* [[Hec Fowler]] (1892–1987), Canadian ice hockey player
* [[Art Garvey]] (1900-1973), American gridiron football player
* [[Hec Gervais]] (1934–1997), Canadian curler
* [[Hec Highton]] (1923–1985), Canadian NHL ice hockey player
* [[Hector Hogan]] (1931-1960), Australian sprinter
* [[Hec Kilrea]] (1907–1969), Canadian NHL ice hockey player
* [[Hec Lalande]] (1934–2010), Canadian NHL ice hockey player
* [[Hector Lépine]] (1897-1951), Canadian NHL ice hockey player
* [[Hec McKay]] (fl. 1904–1935), Australian-rules footballer
* [[Hec Oakley]] (1909–1998), Australian cricketer
* [[Hector Pothier]] (born 1954), Canadian gridiron footballer
* [[Hec Yeomans]] (1895-1968), Australian-rules footballer

===Other people===
* [[Hec Clouthier]] (born 1949), Canadian politician
* [[Hector Waller]] (1900-1942), Australian naval officer

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