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Sector

noun

A plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.

A social group that forms part of the society or the economy.

A particular aspect of life or activity. Synonym: sphere.

The minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes.

A portion of a military position.

Measuring instrument consisting of two graduated arms hinged at one end.

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"Sector" Quotes from Famous Books

... sandbags on top. Here and there was a muddy, bedraggled Tommy half asleep, nursing a dirty and muddy rifle on "sentry go." Everything was very quiet at the moment—no rifles popping, as I had expected, no bullets flying, and, as it happened, absolutely no shelling in the whole sector. ...

— A Yankee in the Trenches • R. Derby Holmes

... outfits sent with the troops quartered in this particular sector was a moving picture machine and many reels of film. But, as Sam Drew had said, the machine ...

— The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front - Or, The Hunt for the Stolen Army Films • Victor Appleton

... upon the roads to St. Omer and the south, and thought of the days last April, when squadron after squadron of French cavalry came riding hot and fast along them to the relief of our hard-pressed troops, after the break of the Portuguese sector of the line at Richebourg St. Vaast. But our way lay north, not south, through a district that seemed strangely familiar to me, though in fact I had only passed forty-eight hours in it, in 1916. Forty-eight hours, however, in the war-zone, at a time of active fighting, and that long before ...

— Fields of Victory • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... at South Georgia were generously ready to share with me their knowledge of the waters in which they pursued their trade, and, while confirming earlier information as to the extreme severity of the ice conditions in this sector of the Antarctic, they were able to give advice ...

— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton

... a year's service as a camion driver with the French amry in the Chemin-des-Dames sector and a year's service with the A.E.F. as an infantry private on special duty with "The Stars and Stripes," the official A.E.F. newspaper. Most of them were drawn at odd minutes during the French push ...

— "I was there" - with the Yanks in France. • C. LeRoy Baldridge

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