sector
sector is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.
- noun. A mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale.
- noun. An astronomical instrument, the limb of which embraces a small portion only of a circle, used for measuring differences of declination too great for the compass of a micrometer. When it is used for measuring zenith distances of stars, it is called a zenith sector.
- noun. measuring instrument consisting of two graduated arms hinged at one end
- noun. a particular aspect of life or activity
"he was helpless in an important sector of his life"
- noun. a social group that forms part of the society or the economy
"the public sector"
- noun. a portion of a military position
- noun. the minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes
- noun. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle
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Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sector:
corset, cortes, coster, croset, escort, recost, rectos, scoter
Common word forms
sectors, sectoral, sectored, sectoring
Words from these letters
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