sector

Less common meanings

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   circle slicenouncountable

   A pie-slice shape made by two lines from the center of a circle and the curve between them.

   Like a slice of pizza cut from the middle.

   She shaded one sector of the circle blue.

   A single pizza slice is shaped like a sector.

   Similarwedge, slice

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   data blocknouncountable

   A small, fixed-size block of data stored on one track of a disk.

   Like one small box in a long row of storage boxes.

   The computer could not read one sector of the disk.

   One bad sector on the disk stopped the file from opening.

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   track sectionnouncountable

   One fixed part of a race track, with all the parts together making up the full lap.

   Like splitting a running track into parts to time each one.

   She set her best time in the first sector.

   He lost a second in the middle sector.

   Similarsection, segment

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   part of ballnouncountable

   A part of a ball shaped like a cone, with its tip at the center.

   The teacher cut a sector from a clay ball, with its tip at the center.

   The teacher cut a sector out of the foam ball, and it looked like an ice cream cone.

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   noun

   A part of a cliff that holds several climbing routes.
9. 9
   noun

   A gear with teeth on only part of its edge, shaped like a curve.
10. 10
    noun

    A calculating tool made of two rulers of the same length joined at a hinge.
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    noun

    A smaller group or community within the wider world of micronations.

    Very interesting read. Love it, and very inspiring. I hope this will be good for nations. I am planning in a thing like this for the MicroWiki sector, and MicroWikia sector, so this is a good model.

    2012, H.A Gov, “Re: University of Directus Releases Historic Study”