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Sector   /sˈɛktər/   Listen
Sector

noun
1.
A plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
2.
A social group that forms part of the society or the economy.
3.
A particular aspect of life or activity.  Synonym: sphere.
4.
The minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes.
5.
A portion of a military position.
6.
Measuring instrument consisting of two graduated arms hinged at one end.



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"Sector" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1.—"C" Company moved to Taylor's Hollow. 2.—"D" Company moved to Taylor's Hollow. 3.—13th Battalion took over sector. 28th Battalion concentrated in Taylor's Hollow as Divisional Reserve. For next five weeks main body engaged on works and Beach fatigues. 12.—Moved to Happy Valley as support to 26th Battalion. Thus rejoined 2nd Division. 13.—Visit of Lord ...
— The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I • Herbert Brayley Collett

... me by the mail orderly—I was on the Verdun sector then—on the morning of the Fourth of July. Remember the date the letter was written because of the quick time it made. Most of our mail took from six weeks to eternity. What are you smiling ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan

... was in the Baccarat sector, I met a most interesting and effective man who was in the Supply Department of the "Y" on week days, and conducted services in outlying camps every Sunday morning with great success. He had been a circus acrobat back in the States. What a revolutionizing influence war is, with preachers ...
— The Fight for the Argonne - Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man • William Benjamin West

... sharpened into an index, and moves to an extent corresponding to the pressure applied to the tube; but in the more recent forms of this apparatus, a dial and a hand, like those of a clock, are employed, and the hand is moved round by a toothed sector connected to the tube, and which sector acts on a pinion attached to the hand. Mr. Shank, of Paisley, has lately introduced a form of steam gauge like a thermometer, with a flattened bulb; and the pressure of the steam, by compressing the bulb, causes the mercury to rise to ...
— A Catechism of the Steam Engine • John Bourne

... — N. part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any; division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, frustum; detachment, parcel. piece[Fr], lump, bit cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop[obs3], slice, scale; lamina &c. 204; small part; morsel, particle &c. (smallness) 32; installment, dividend; share &c. (allotment) 786. debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... while,—several months, in fact. At first we were in a place where there wasn't much fighting. Just before the first big Verdun drive we were transferred to that sector, and then we saw ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon



Words linked to "Sector" :   piece of land, tract, measuring instrument, field of battle, armed services, block, computer memory unit, black economy, social group, war machine, piece of ground, battleground, arc, military machine, field, allocation unit, economy, department, military, business, economic system, battlefield, facet, aspect, parcel, parcel of land, society, measuring device, measuring system, field of honor, two-dimensional figure, plane figure, armed forces



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