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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sector.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛktə(r)/; /sɛk.tɔ(r)/, (father-bother merger) /sɛk.tɑ(r)/
• Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)

Noun

sector (plural sectors)

1. A section. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (aviation) In the schedule for an aircraft and its crew, the period starting with preparation of the plane before loading at one airport and ending with deplaning at the next.

   Synonym: leg

3. 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.
   4. (micronationalism) A community or subculture within the wider intermicronational community.
      • 2002 April 24, Kaiser Mors I, “Imperial Decree #13: Sectors.”, in Imperial Republic of Shireroth forums‎, archived from the original on 12 September 2024:

        Shireroth shall not recognize the use of Sectors^[sic] as a micronational geographic or cultural subdivision. Nor shall it reside in any sector. Nor shall any duchy or territory be considered a part of ANY sector unless the Duchy or Territory expressly grants permision^[sic] to be considered in such sector.

      • 2006 December 12, Sepatarist, “CIS Disscussion”, in Micronational Cartography Society‎, archived from the original on 12 September 2024:

        I'll also provide a list of all active citizens, I understand that in the past this has been hard due to lack of updates of the necessary links but as someone said not so long ago the CIS sector is in more of a flux than other sectors - bar Lovely 😉

      • 2009 July 16, claudre [Claudio de Castro], “Micronations with names of Macronations”, in List of Micronations Forum‎:

        What are your opinions about this practice? Does it have a parallel outside the lusophone sector? Do you know of other stories other than YUGA? Does this mean micronationalism is changing? Is it good, bad, or irrelevant?

      • 2012 September 29, H.A Gov, “Re: University of Directus Releases Historic Study”, in Micras forums‎:

        Very interesting read. Love it, and very inspiring. I hope this will be good for nations. I am planning in a thing like this for the MicroWiki sector, and MicroWikia sector, so this is a good model.

      • 2021 March 13, “Leaving For Greener Pastures”, in r/micronations‎, Reddit:

        This is not a sector where micronations come together, it is a cesspool where the most toxic elements of micronationalism gather to engage in drama. I plan on having much stricter rules than this sector and several people to report abuse or immature activity to, rather than just the shoddy rules and rule enforcement and one semi-active admin here.

4. (geometry) Part of a circle, extending to the center; circular sector.
5. (geometry) A portion of a sphere or ball defined by a conical boundary with apex at the center of the sphere.
6. (computer hardware) A fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium.

   Coordinate term: block

7. (calculation) An instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge.
8. 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

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

Derived terms

• 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
• 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

• sect
• section
• segment

Translations

section

Arabic: قِطَاع m (qiṭāʕ) Belarusian: се́ктар m (sjéktar), сэ́ктар m (séktar) Bulgarian: се́ктор (bg) m (séktor) Catalan: sector (ca) m Czech: sektor (cs) m Finnish: lohko (fi), sektori (fi) French: secteur (fr) m Italian: settore (it) m Macedonian: сектор m (sektor) Malay: seksyen Polish: sekcja (pl) f, sektor (pl) m Portuguese: setor (pt) m Russian: се́ктор (ru) m (séktor) Spanish: sector (es) Swahili: sekta (sw) Ukrainian: се́ктор m (séktor)

zone

Bulgarian: уча́стък (bg) m (učástǎk) Catalan: sector (ca) m Esperanto: sektoro Finnish: vyöhyke (fi) Greek: τομέας (el) m (toméas) Italian: settore (it) m Lithuanian: sektorius (lt) Portuguese: setor (pt) m Russian: зо́на (ru) f (zóna), о́бласть (ru) f (óblastʹ), се́ктор (ru) m (séktor), уча́сток (ru) m (učástok) Spanish: sector (es) m Ukrainian: се́ктор m (séktor)

circular sector — see circular sector

fixed-sized unit of sequential data storage

Arabic: قِطَاع m (qiṭāʕ) Belarusian: се́ктар m (sjéktar), сэ́ктар m (séktar) Bulgarian: се́ктор (bg) m (séktor) Chinese: Mandarin: 扇區 / 扇区 (zh) (shànqū) Czech: sektor (cs) m Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: sektori (fi) French: please add this translation if you can German: Datenblock m Greek: τομέας (el) m (toméas) Japanese: セクタ (sekuta) Korean: 섹터 (sekteo) Polish: sektor (pl) m Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: се́ктор (ru) m (séktor) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swahili: sekta (sw) Thai: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: се́ктор m (séktor)

military operation area

Belarusian: се́ктар m (sjéktar), сэ́ктар m (séktar) Bulgarian: се́ктор (bg) m (séktor) Finnish: lohko (fi), vastuualue Italian: settore (it) m Malay: sektor Russian: се́ктор (ru) m (séktor) Swahili: sekta (sw) Ukrainian: се́ктор m (séktor)

a field of economic activity

Bulgarian: се́ктор (bg) m (séktor) Catalan: sector (ca) m Dutch: sector (nl) m Finnish: sektori (fi) French: secteur (fr) m Galician: sector (gl) m Indonesian: sektor (id) Italian: settore (it) Malay: sektor Maori: rāngai Occitan: sector (oc) m Portuguese: setor (pt) m Spanish: sector (es) m, rubro (es) m Swahili: sekta (sw) Swedish: sektor (sv) c Tajik: хоҷагӣ (tg) (xojagi) Ukrainian: се́ктор m (séktor) Uzbek: xoʻjalik (uz)

See also

• area of influence
• boot block
• zone of action

Anagrams

• torces, c-store, corset, rectos, scoter, Tresco, recost, Cortes, Coster, Ectors, Certos, scrote, escort, coster

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sectōrem.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

sector m (plural sectors)

1. sector, section

Derived terms

• sectorial

Further reading

• “sector”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sector.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛk.tɔr/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sec‧tor
• Rhymes: -ɛktɔr

Noun

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

1. sector

Derived terms

• dienstensector
• industriesector
• landbouwsector
• onderwijssector
• primaire sector
• secundaire sector
• tertiaire sector

Descendants

• → Indonesian: sektor

Latin

Etymology 1

From secō (“cut, cut off”) +‎ -tor.

Noun

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

2. cutter (one who cuts or cuts off)
3. purchaser or bidder (someone who buys or attempts to buy at a sale of confiscated goods)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sector	sectōrēs
genitive	sectōris	sectōrum
dative	sectōrī	sectōribus
accusative	sectōrem	sectōrēs
ablative	sectōre	sectōribus
vocative	sector	sectōrēs

Descendants

• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: setor
  • Ladin: setor, setour, setou, setú
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: sèitor, saitor

Borrowings:

• → Belarusian: се́ктaр (sjéktar), сэ́ктар (séktar)
• → Bulgarian: се́ктор (séktor)
• → Catalan: sector
• → Dutch: sector
  • → Indonesian: sektor
• → English: sector
  • → Malay: sektor
  • → Swahili: sekta
  • → Tok Pisin: sekta
• → Esperanto: sektoro
  • → Ido: sektoro
• → French: secteur
  • → Romanian: sector
• → Galician: sector
• → German: Sektor
  • → Czech: sektor
  • → Estonian: sektor
  • → Finnish: sektori
  • → Lithuanian: sektorius
  • → Polish: sektor
• → Italian: settore
• → Macedonian: сектор (sektor)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: sektor
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: sektor
• → Occitan: sector
• → Portuguese: setor
• → Russian: се́ктор (séktor)
  • → Kazakh: сектор (sektor)
• → Serbo-Croatian: sȅktor / се̏ктор
• → Spanish: sector
• → Swedish: sektor
• → Ukrainian: се́ктор (séktor)

Etymology 2

From sequor (“follow”) +‎ -tō.

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

   Conjugation of sector (first conjugation, deponent)

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		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		sectārī, sectārier1			—			sectāns			—
future		sectātūrum esse			—			sectātūrus			sectandus
perfect		sectātum esse			—			sectātus			—
future perfect		sectātum fore			—			—			—
perfect potential		sectātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
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.

Derived terms

• assector
• consector
• īnsectātiō
• īnsectātor
• īnsector
• persector

References

• “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, 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

Pronunciation

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɛˈktoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɛˈktoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɛˈkto.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: sec‧tor

Noun

sector m (plural sectores)

1. (Portugal) alternative form of setor

Further reading

• “sector”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “sector”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French secteur, from Latin sector.

Noun

sector n (plural sectoare)

1. sector

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sector	sectorul		sectoare	sectoarele
genitive-dative	sector	sectorului		sectoare	sectoarelor
vocative	sectorule			sectoarelor

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin sector.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sector m (plural sectores)

1. section
2. zone
3. branch

Derived terms

• sector primario
• sector privado
• sector público
• sector servicios
• sector terciario

Further reading

• “sector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024