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Sector may refer to:


Places

  • Sector, Devon, a location in the county of Devon in south-western England
  • Sector, West Virginia
    Sector, West Virginia

    Sector is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located along the west bank of the Potomac River#South Branch Potomac River on Fleming-Sector Road across from Glebe, West Virginia....
    , an unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States of America


In computing

  • Cylinder-head-sector
    Cylinder-head-sector

    Cylinder-head-sector, also known as CHS, was an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive. In the case of floppy drives, for which the same exact diskette medium can be truly disk formatting to different capacities, this is still true....
     (or "CHS"), an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard drive
  • Disk sector
    Disk sector

    In the context of computer disk storage, a sector is a subdivision of a Track on a magnetic disk or optical disc. Each sector stores a fixed amount of data....
    , a physical subdivision of space on a computer disk-storage medium, specifically a subdivision of a "track"
  • in portal rendering
    Portal rendering

    In computer-generated imagery and real-time 3D computer graphics, portal rendering is an algorithm for Hidden surface determination. A game level might contain many graphical polygons; only a few of which may be visible on screen at a given time....
    , a convex polygonal segment of map-space used to facilitate calculation of the visibility of objects in a computer display


Geographic subdivisions

  • Sectors of Guinea-Bissau
    Sectors of Guinea-Bissau

    |||}The Regions of Guinea-Bissau of Guinea-Bissau are subdivided into 37 Sectors. The sectors are listed below, by region:Bafata Region...


Fictional uses

  • Sector (Star Trek), a fictional area of space-designation used in the Star Trek universe for interstellar navigation


Other uses

  • Sector (economic): one of several subdivisions in an economic system (used for analysis and classification)
  • Sector (instrument)
    Sector (instrument)

    The sector, also known as a proportional compass or military compass, was a major calculating instrument in use from the end of the sixteenth century until the nineteenth century....
    , also known as a "proportional compass" or "military compass", a calculating instrument consisting of two rulers (of equal length) joined by a hinge
  • Sector lights
    Sector lights

    Sector lights are a man-made pilotage and position fixing aid that indicates a safe channel through shallow or dangerous waters.Generally, there are three lights of different colours, each identifying a navigational sector:...
    , one of three areas relative to a shallow-water navigational channel
  • Circular sector
    Circular sector

    A circular sector or circle sector, is the portion of a circle enclosed by two radius and an Arc , where the smaller area is known as the minor sector and the larger being the major sector....
    , also known as a "pie piece", the portion of a circle enclosed by two radii and an arc
  • United States Coast Guard Sectors
    United States Coast Guard Sectors

    A Sector is a shore-based operational unit of the United States Coast Guard. Each Sector is responsible for the execution of all Coast Guard missions within its Area of Responsibility with operational support from Coast Guard United States Coast Guard Cutter and United States Coast Guard Air Stations....
    , a shore-based operational unit of the United States Coast Guard
  • "SECTOR", a United States nationwide radio network operated by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the largest and primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Homeland Security , responsible for identifying, investigating, and dismantling vulnerabilities regarding the nation's border, economic, transportation, and infrastructure security....


See also

  • Zone
    Zone

    Zone may refer to:In geography:* One of five geographical zones of the earth:** The torrid zone** The north and south temperate zones...
  • Region
    Region

    Region is a geographical term that is used in various ways among the different branches of geography. In general, a region is a medium-scale area of land or water, smaller than the whole areas of interest , and larger than a specific site A region may be seen as a collection of smaller units or as one part of a larger whole ....
  • Area
    Area

    Area is a quantity expressing the two-dimensional size of a defined part of a surface, typically a region bounded by a closed curve. The term surface area refers to the total area of the exposed surface of a 3-dimensional solid, such as the sum of the areas of the exposed sides of a polyhedron....