sector
Definition 1
General: Distinct and large subdivision defined on the basis of some common factor. See also segment.
Definition 2
Data storage: Smallest addressable division of a storage area on a magnetic disk, created when a disk is formatted. The operating system of a computer breaks data into sector size chunks and stores it in the free (unoccupied) sectors which may be together (contiguous) or separated.
sector is in the Advertising, Marketing, & Sales, Computer Hardware, Software, & Security, Economics, Politics, & Society and Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership subjects.
sector appears in the definitions of the following terms:
earnings growth,
consortium,
sector fund,
service industry,
industrialization,
seasonal industry,
hard drive,
Wall Street,
housing starts,
compact disc (CD)
and
sector appears in the other terms:
public sector,
voluntary sector,
third sector,
primary sector,
manufacturing sector,
industrial sector,
International Telecommunications Union-Telecommunications Standardization Sector (ITU-TSS),
sector graph,
closed sector,
defensive sectors
and
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