sector

Borrowed from Latin sector.

• (US) enPR: sĕk'tər, IPA^(key): /ˈsɛk.təɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)

A geometric sector, to the left.

sector (plural sectors)

1. A section. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. A zone; a designated area.
   1. (military) An area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible.
   2. (military) One of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier.
   3. (science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.
3. (geometry) Part of a circle, extending to the center; circular sector.
4. (computer hardware) A fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium.

   Coordinate term: block

5. (calculation) An instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge.
6. A field of economic activity.
   • 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:

     Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.

   public sector; private sector

7. (engineering) A toothed gear whose face is the arc of a circle.
8. (motor racing) A fixed, continuous section of the track, such that sectors do not overlap but all sectors make up the whole track.
9. (climbing) An area of a crag, consisting of various routes

• sect
• section
• segment

• area of influence
• boot block
• zone of action

• Coster, Ectors, Tresco, corset, coster, escort, recost, rectos, scoter, scrote

Learned borrowing from Latin sectōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səkˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [sekˈtoɾ]

sector m (plural sectors)

1. sector, section

• sectorial

• “sector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Latin sector.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛk.tɔr/

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• Hyphenation: sec‧tor
• Rhymes: -ɛktɔr

sector m (plural sectoren or sectors, diminutive sectortje n)

1. sector

• → Indonesian: sektor

From secō (“cut, cut off”) +‎ -tor.

sector m (genitive sectōris, feminine sectrīx); third declension

1. One who cuts or cuts off, cutter
2. A purchaser or bidder at a sale of confiscated goods

Third-declension noun.

• English: sector
• Italian: settore
• Russian: се́ктор (séktor)
• Serbo-Croatian: sȅktor / се̏ктор
• Spanish: sector

From sequor (“follow”) +‎ -tō.

sector (present infinitive sectārī or sectārier, perfect active sectātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. to follow continually, attend, accompany
2. to follow after, pursue, chase
3. to seek after/out

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

• “sector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sector”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sector in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sector”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Langenscheidt Pocket Latin Dictionary

• Hyphenation: sec‧tor

sector m (plural sectores) (European spelling)

1. Alternative form of setor

Borrowed from French secteur, from Latin sector.

sector n (plural sectoare)

1. sector

From Latin sector.

• IPA^(key): /seɡˈtoɾ/ [seɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: sec‧tor

sector m (plural sectores)

1. section
2. zone
3. branch

• “sector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014