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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sector (plural sectors)
- A section. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- A zone; a designated area.
- (military) An area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible.
- (military) One of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier.
- (science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.
- (geometry) Part of a circle, extending to the center; circular sector.
- (computer hardware) A fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium.
- Coordinate term: block
- (calculation) An instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge.
- 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
- (engineering) A toothed gear whose face is the arc of a circle.
- (motor racing) A fixed, continuous section of the track, such that sectors do not overlap but all sectors make up the whole track.
- (climbing) An area of a crag, consisting of various routes
Derived terms
[edit]- boot sector
- circle sector
- cylinder-head-sector
- dark sector
- dip sector
- dual-sector model
- hard sector
- hyperbolic sector
- light sector
- married sector
- minimum sector altitude
- primary sector
- private sector
- private-sector
- public sector
- public-sector
- quaternary sector of the economy
- quinary sector
- secondary sector
- sectored
- sector principle
- soft sector
- state sector
- subsector
- tertiary sector
- third sector
- weak sector
- zenith sector
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]section
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zone
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circular sector — see circular sector
fixed-sized unit of sequential data storage
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military operation area
a field of economic activity
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See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]- torces, c-store, corset, rectos, scoter, Tresco, recost, Cortes, Coster, Ectors, Certos, scrote, escort, coster
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin sectōrem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sector m (plural sectors)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sector m (plural sectoren or sectors, diminutive sectortje n)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: sektor
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From secō (“cut, cut off”) + -tor.
Noun
[edit]sector m (genitive sectōris, feminine sectrīx); third declension
- cutter (one who cuts or cuts off)
- purchaser or bidder (someone who buys or attempts to buy at a sale of confiscated goods)
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | sector | sectōrēs |
Genitive | sectōris | sectōrum |
Dative | sectōrī | sectōribus |
Accusative | sectōrem | sectōrēs |
Ablative | sectōre | sectōribus |
Vocative | sector | sectōrēs |
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From sequor (“follow”) + -tō.
Verb
[edit]sector (present infinitive sectārī or sectārier, perfect active sectātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of sector (first conjugation, deponent) | |||||||
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indicative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | sector | sectāris, sectāre |
sectātur | sectāmur | sectāminī | sectantur |
imperfect | sectābar | sectābāris, sectābāre |
sectābātur | sectābāmur | sectābāminī | sectābantur | |
future | sectābor | sectāberis, sectābere |
sectābitur | sectābimur | sectābiminī | sectābuntur | |
perfect | sectātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | sectātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
future perfect | sectātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | secter | sectēris, sectēre |
sectētur | sectēmur | sectēminī | sectentur |
imperfect | sectārer | sectārēris, sectārēre |
sectārētur | sectārēmur | sectārēminī | sectārentur | |
perfect | sectātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | sectātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
imperative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | sectāre | — | — | sectāminī | — |
future | — | sectātor | sectātor | — | — | sectantor | |
non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
infinitives | sectārī, sectārier1 |
sectātum esse | sectātūrum esse | — | — | — | |
participles | sectāns | sectātus | sectātūrus | — | — | sectandus | |
verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
sectandī | sectandō | sectandum | sectandō | sectātum | sectātū |
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
References
[edit]- “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
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: sec‧tor
Noun
[edit]sector m (plural sectores) (European Portuguese spelling)
- Alternative form of setor
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French secteur, from Latin sector.
Noun
[edit]sector n (plural sectoare)
Declension
[edit]Declension of sector
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) sector | sectorul | (niște) sectoare | sectoarele |
genitive/dative | (unui) sector | sectorului | (unor) sectoare | sectoarelor |
vocative | sectorule | sectoarelor |
Spanish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sector m (plural sectores)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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