Sector vs. Vector — What's the Difference?

An area or portion that is distinct from others

A quantity, such as velocity, completely specified by a magnitude and a direction.

The plane figure enclosed by two radii of a circle or ellipse and the arc between them.

A one-dimensional array.

A mathematical instrument consisting of two arms hinged at one end and marked with sines, tangents, etc. for making diagrams.

An element of a vector space.

A part or division, as of a city or a national economy

An organism, such as a mosquito or tick, that carries disease-causing microorganisms from one host to another.

The portion of a circle bounded by two radii and the included arc.

A bacteriophage, plasmid, or other agent that transfers genetic material from one cell to another.

A measuring instrument consisting of two graduated arms hinged together at one end.

A force or influence.

(Computers) A portion of a storage device making up the smallest addressable unit of information.

A course or direction, as of an airplane.

A division of a defensive position for which one military unit is responsible.

To guide (a pilot or aircraft, for example) by means of radio communication according to vectors.

A division of an offensive military position.

(mathematics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.

To divide (something) into sectors.

(mathematics) An ordered tuple representing such.

Section

(mathematics) Any member of a (generalized) vector space.

Zone (designated area).

(aviation) A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.

(geometry) part of a circle, extending to the center; circular sector

(epidemiology) A carrier of a disease-causing agent.

(computer hardware) fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium (compare to block)

(sociology) A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.

(military) an area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible

(psychology) A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.

(military) one of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier

The way in which the eyes are drawn across the visual text. The trail that a book cover can encourage the eyes to follow from certain objects to others.en

(science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.

A memory address containing the address of a code entry point, usually one which is part of a table and often one that is dereferenced and jumped to during the execution of an interrupt.

(calculation) an instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge.

(programming) A one-dimensional array.

A field of economic activity

A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics.

(engineering) A toothed gear whose face is the arc of a circle.

(molecular biology) A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another.

(motor racing) A fixed, continuous section of the track, such that sectors do not overlap but all sectors make up the whole track.

To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.

(climbing) An area of a crag, consisting of various routes

(computing) To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.

A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.

Same as Radius vector.

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.

A directed quantity, as a straight line, a force, or a velocity. Vectors are said to be equal when their directions are the same and their magnitudes equal. Cf. Scalar.

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.

A variable quantity that can be resolved into components

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

A straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction

A body of people who form part of society or economy;

Any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease;

A particular aspect of life or activity;

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