Tech

Tech may refer to:

  • 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 issue with technology
  • 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", a university in Ruston, Louisiana
    • Tech (mascot), the fawn and white lineage of English bulldogs 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 Polytechnic Institute and State University, also called "Virginia Tech", 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