Sector may refer to:
Places
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Sector, West Virginia, U.S.
Geometry
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Circular sector
A circular sector, also known as circle sector or disk sector (symbol: ⌔), is the portion of a disk (a closed region bounded by a circle) enclosed by two radii and an arc, where the smaller area is known as the ''minor sector'' and the large ...
, the portion of a disc enclosed by two radii and a circular arc
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Hyperbolic sector, a region enclosed by two radii and a hyperbolic arc
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Spherical sector, a portion of a sphere enclosed by a cone of radii from the center of the sphere
Social and economic
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Business sector
In economics, the business sector or corporate sector - sometimes popularly called simply "business" - is "the part of the economy made up by companies". It is a subset of the domestic economy, excluding the economic activities of general gove ...
, part of the economy which involves the trading and sale of products by companies
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Economic sector, the manufacturing, finance and production of goods for consumers
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Private sector
The private sector is the part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is owned by private groups, usually as a means of establishment for profit or non profit, rather than being owned by the government.
Employment
The ...
, business activity created by private enterprise for profit
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Public sector
The public sector, also called the state sector, is the part of the economy composed of both public services and public enterprises. Public sectors include the public goods and governmental services such as the military, law enforcement, in ...
, delivers social services, infrastructure and institutions administered by government
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Voluntary sector
The voluntary sector, independent sector, or civic sector is the realm of social activity undertaken by organizations that are non-governmental nonprofit organizations. This sector is also called the third sector, community sector, and nonprofit ...
, a non-profit and voluntary part of an economy provided by organisations
* The sector of the sector directive in
government procurement in the European Union
Computing
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Cylinder-head-sector, an early method for giving addresses to blocks of data on a hard drive
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Disk sector, a subdivision of a track on a disk
* Sector, or zone, in
portal rendering
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Sector/Sphere, an open source software suite
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Sector (instrument), a historic calculating instrument
Other uses
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Sector (country subdivision)
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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
See also
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Area (disambiguation)
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Region (disambiguation)
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Zone (disambiguation)
Zone or The Zone may refer to:
Places Climate and altitude zones
* Death zone (originally the lethal zone), altitudes above a certain point where the amount of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span
* Frigid zone, ...
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Sectoria'', a small genus of stone loaches
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