"FEC" meaning in English

See FEC in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} FEC
  1. (US) Initialism of Federal Election Commission. Tags: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Federal Election Commission
    Sense id: en-FEC-en-name-CD9YVyio Categories (other): American English, English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 19 31

Noun

Forms: FECs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} FEC (countable and uncountable, plural FECs)
  1. (countable) Initialism of foreign exchange certificate. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism Alternative form of: foreign exchange certificate
    Sense id: en-FEC-en-noun-6KlY~9IQ
  2. (information theory, uncountable) Initialism of forward error correction. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: forward error correction Categories (topical): Information theory

Inflected forms

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