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sector is a noun meaning "a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle
a social group that forms part of the society or the economy
“the public sector”
a particular aspect of life or activity
“he was helpless in an important sector of his life”
the minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes
measuring instrument consisting of two graduated arms hinged at one end
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sector come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.