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Definitions of sector
  1. noun
    a particular aspect of life or activity
    "he was helpless in an important sector of his life"

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  2. noun
    a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle
  3. noun
    a portion of a military position
  4. noun
    a social group that forms part of the society or the economy
    "the public sector"
  5. noun
    measuring instrument consisting of two graduated arms hinged at one end
  6. noun
    the minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes
Definition that contains sector
  • block (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
  • sector the minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes
  • format divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data
  • initialize divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data
  • initialization (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position
  • cyclic redundancy check an error correction code that is recorded in each sector of a magnetic disk and used to catch errors in the data
  • ram disk (computer science) a virtual drive that is created by setting aside part of the random-access memory to use as if it were a group of sectors
  • allocation unit a group of sectors on a magnetic disk that can be reserved for the use of a particular file
  • disk cache a cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower disk
  • initialise divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data
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