REC explained

REC or Rec is a shortening of recording, the process of capturing data onto a storage medium.

REC may also refer to:

Educational institutes

• Regional Engineering College, colleges of engineering and technology education in India
• Rajalakshmi Engineering College (ta|ராஜலட்சுமி பொறியியல் கல்லூரி|link=no), Thandalam, Chennai, India

Organizations

• Railway Executive Committee, in Britain
• REC Limited, an infrastructure finance company in India
• Reformed Episcopal Church, an Anglican church in the United States and Canada
• Regional Economic Communities, in Africa
• Regional electricity companies, the fourteen companies created when the electricity market in the UK was privatised
• Renewable Energy Corporation, a solar power company with headquarters in Norway

• REC Silicon (no)
• Research Ethics Committee, a type of ethics committee
• Rock Eisteddfod Challenge, an Australian abstinence program
• Rural Electrification Corporation

Television, film, and fiction

• Rec (film series), a Spanish horror film series
  • Rec (film), the first film in the series
• Rec (manga), a Japanese manga series; also refers to anime based on it

Places

• Reç, a settlement in Albania
• Reč, a town in Montenegro
• Recife/Guararapes–Gilberto Freyre International Airport, of which the IATA code is REC
• Rectory Road railway station, of which the National Rail station code is REC

Other uses

• rec.*, a newsgroup hierarchy
• Recitation, as abbreviated on course schedules
• Renewable Energy Certificate (United States), tradable environmental commodities
• Rec., the debut extended play by South Korean singer Yuju