Sector may refer to:

Places

  • Sector, West Virginia, U.S.

Geometry

  • Circular sector, the portion of a disc enclosed by two radii and a circular arc
  • Hyperbolic sector, a region enclosed by two radii and a hyperbolic arc
  • Spherical sector, a portion of a sphere enclosed by a cone of radii from the center of the sphere

Social and economic

  • Business sector, part of the economy which involves the trading and sale of products by companies
  • Economic sector, the manufacturing, finance and production of goods for consumers
  • Private sector, business activity created by private enterprise for profit
  • Public sector, delivers social services, infrastructure and institutions administered by government
  • Voluntary sector, 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

  • Cylinder-head-sector, an early method for giving addresses to blocks of data on a hard drive
  • Disk sector, a subdivision of a track on a disk
  • Sector, or zone, in portal rendering
  • Sector/Sphere, an open source software suite
  • Sector (instrument), a historic calculating instrument

Other uses

  • Sector (administrative division)
  • Sector clock
  • Sector light
  • Sector commander
  • 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
  • Sector General, a series of science fiction novels by James White

See also

  • Area (disambiguation)
  • Region (disambiguation)
  • Zone (disambiguation)
  • Sectoria, a small genus of stone loaches