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'''Sector''' may refer to:
* [[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
* [[Sector (economic)]]: one of several subdivisions in an economic system (used for analysis and classification)
* [[Sector (instrument)]], also known as a "proportional compass" or "military compass", a calculating instrument consisting of two rulers (of equal length) joined by a hinge
* [[sector lights | Sector (navigation)]]: one of three areas relative to a shallow-water navigational channel
* [[Circular sector]], also known as a "pie piece", the portion of a circle enclosed by two radii and an arc
* [[United States Coast Guard Sectors]], a shore-based operational unit of the United States Coast Guard
* "SECTOR", a United States nationwide radio network operated by the [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]
* a [[Base Transceiver Station#Sectorisation|subdivision of a mobile phone network cell]] illuminated by a single directional antenna
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
'''geographic subdivisions''' generally referred to as "sectors":
* Guinea-Bissau: [[Sectors of Guinea-Bissau]]
'''fictional uses''':
* [[Sector (Star Trek)]], a fictional area of space-designation used in the ''Star Trek'' universe for interstellar navigation
== See also==
* [[Zone]]
* [[Region]]
* [[Area]]
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