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] In mobile communications networks

  • Sector_antenna, to see the area spanned by an antenna on a mobile phone mast

[edit] Geographic subdivisions

[edit] Geometry

  • Circular sector, also known as a "pie piece", the portion of a circle enclosed by two radii and an arc
  • Spherical sector, portion of a sphere enclosed by two radii from the center of the sphere.
  • Hyperbolic sector, is a region of the Cartesian plane bounded by rays from the origin to two points (a, 1/a) and (b, 1/b) and by the hyperbola xy = 1.

[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

[edit] See also

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