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Definition: ECT

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.[Wordnet].

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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"ECT" is a common misspelling or typo for: etc, sect, ext, ECG, DCT, echt, DECT, ecto, ECF, rect, ECCT, ECTL.

Date "ECT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Specialty Definition: ECT

Domain Definition
Aerospace EOS Compatibility Test. (references)
Military Electro-convulsive therapy. (references)
Physics Emulsion chamber technology. (references)
Technology Explicit Call Transfer. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ECT

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry Source Expression Field
ECT Dutch Elektroconvulsietherapie N/A
ECT English Electrochemical treeing N/A
ECT Finnish Eksplisiittinen soitonsiirto Post & Telecom
ECT French Transfert d'appel explicite Post & Telecom
ECT German Emissions-Computer-Tomographie Electrical Engineering, Medicine
ECT Italian Trasferimento esplicito chiamata Post & Telecom
ECT Portuguese Túnel de Evans Physics, Transportation
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: ECT


ECT

ECT may be an abbreviation for

  • Environmental Compliance Technician, a specialist hired by companies to reduce their environmental damage and avoid fines.
  • Electroconvulsive therapy, also known as electroshock therapy, a medical treatment.
  • Emission Computed Tomography, see: Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography.
  • Ealing Community Transport, a social enterprise in England.
  • Eddy-current testing, a nondestructive testing technique for metal objects.
  • Electrical capacitance tomography, an industrial process imaging technique.
  • Catalan Workers' Left (Esquerra Català dels Treballadors), a Catalan leftwing nationalist group.
  • Eau Claire Transit, the transit in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
  • ECN-capable transport, a transport layer capable of using Explicit Congestion Notification.
  • Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos, the Brazilian postal service
  • Edge crush test, a standard test of the strength of cardboard boxes.
  • Evangelicals and Catholics Together
  • Evening Civil Twilight, from sunset to when the center of the Sun is more than 6° below the horizon.
  • Electronic Card Transactions, a statistical series published by the New Zealand Government statistical agency, Statistics New Zealand, and measuring spending through cards processed electronically at the point of sale.
  • Elementary cognitive task a simple task used in intelligence testing

It may also refer to:

Or it can be a misspelling of:

  • etc.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "ECT". Image Credit.



Topics by Level of Interest: ECT

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Fictional and semi-fictional depictions of ECT 11     ECT 5
ECT 5     Fictional and semi-fictional depictions of ECT 11

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"ECT" is a common misspelling or typo for: etc, sect, ext, ECG, DCT, echt, DECT, ecto, ECF, rect, ECCT, ECTL.

Synonyms: ECT
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

electroshock.

Expression

electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy.
Consider also: electric shock therapy, emission computed tomography, shock therapy.
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Computed Synonyms: ECT

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   6.0182   ECT     electroshock therapy     electroconvulsive therapy, shock treatment, seismotherapy, sismotherapy   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: ECT

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Ruotsi elektrokonvulsiv terapi (ECT, electric shock therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy), elektrochock (ECT, electric shock therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy), elchockbehandling (electroconvulsive therapy, ECT, electroshock therapy, electroshock treatment), elchock (ECT, electric shock, electric shock therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock), elbehandling (electroconvulsive therapy, ECT, electroshock therapy). Additional references: Ruotsi, Sweden, Finland, ECT. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish terapéutica de choque (ECT, electroconvulsive therapy), la terapia electroconvulsiva (ECT, electroshock therapy). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, ECT. (volunteer & more translations)
Svenska elektrokonvulsiv terapi (ECT, electric shock therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy), elektrochock (ECT, electric shock therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy), elchockbehandling (electroconvulsive therapy, ECT, electroshock therapy, electroshock treatment), elchock (ECT, electric shock, electric shock therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock), elbehandling (electroconvulsive therapy, ECT, electroshock therapy). Additional references: Svenska, Sweden, Finland, ECT. (volunteer & more translations)
Swedish elektrokonvulsiv terapi (ECT, electric shock therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy), elektrochock (ECT, electric shock therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy), elchockbehandling (electroconvulsive therapy, ECT, electroshock therapy, electroshock treatment), elchock (ECT, electric shock, electric shock therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock), elbehandling (electroconvulsive therapy, ECT, electroshock therapy). Additional references: Swedish, Sweden, Finland, ECT. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: ECT

Language Translations for “ECT” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag AthageCT (ECT). Additional references: Athag, ECT. (volunteer)
Double Dutch AgeCT (ECT). Additional references: Double Dutch, ECT. (volunteer)
Leet £<1 (ECT). Additional references: Leet, ECT. (volunteer)
Oppish OpeCT (ECT). Additional references: Oppish, ECT. (volunteer)
Pig Latin ECTWAY (ECT). Additional references: Pig Latin, ECT. (volunteer)
Terran B elekteotoov (ECT). Additional references: Terran B, ECT. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi UbeCT (ECT). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, ECT. (volunteer)
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