Sector
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[edit] Sector may refer to
[edit] Places
- Sector, Devon, a location in the county of Devon in south-western England
- Sector, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States of America
[edit] In computing
- Cylinder-head-sector (or "CHS"), an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard drive
- Disk sector, a physical subdivision of space on a computer disk-storage medium, specifically a subdivision of a "track"
- in portal rendering, a convex polygonal segment of map-space used to facilitate calculation of the visibility of objects in a computer display
[edit] Geographic subdivisions
[edit] Fictional uses
- Sector (Star Trek), a fictional area of space-designation used in the Star Trek universe for interstellar navigation
- Sector General, a series of books about an interstellar hospital in Space, written by James White
[edit] Other uses
- Sector (economic): one of several subdivisions in an economic system (used for analysis and classification)
- Sector (instrument), 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, one of three areas relative to a shallow-water navigational channel
- Circular sector, also known as a "pie piece", the portion of a circle enclosed by two radii and an arc
- United States Coast Guard Sectors, 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
- Sector - can be used to refer to a certian period of ones life. For example, 'that sector of your life is over!'.
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