Sector
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Sector may refer to:
Places
- Sector, West Virginia, U.S.
Geometry
- Circular sector, the portion of a disc enclosed by two radii and a circular arc
- Hyperbolic sector, a region enclosed by two radii and a hyperbolic arc
- Spherical sector, a portion of a sphere enclosed by a cone of radii from the center of the sphere
Social and economic
- Business sector, part of the economy which involves the trading and sale of products by companies
- Economic sector, the manufacturing, financial and production of goods for consumers
- Private sector, business activity created by private enterprise for profit
- Public sector, delivers social services, infrastructure and institutions administered by government
- Voluntary sector, a non-profit and voluntary part of an economy provided by organisations
- "The sector" in the system of government procurement in the European Union refers to the sector of public utilities and special public interests (e.g. infrastructure or defense) where government procurement has more liberties in order to safeguard their availability
Computing
- Cylinder-head-sector, an early method for giving addresses to blocks of data on a hard drive
- Disk sector, a subdivision of a track on a disk
- Sector, or zone, in portal rendering
- Sector/Sphere, an open source software suite
Other uses
- Sector (country subdivision)
- Sector (instrument), a historic calculating instrument
- Economic sector, a subdivision of economic activity
- United States Coast Guard Sector, a shore-based unit of the U.S. Coast Guard
- Sector, a fictional area of space, e.g. in the Foundation series, Star Wars, StarCraft, Warhammer 40,000, Lollipop Chainsaw
- Sector, or galactic quadrant, regions of space in Star Trek
- Sector, and Sector No Limits, watch brands