(computing) The recording of layout data onto a magnetic or optical recording medium in order to designate the sector locations, as opposed to using physical marks or holes.

(computing) Of a storage medium: divided up by soft sectoring.

(computing) Of a storage medium: divided up by hard sectoring.

(business) All organizations in an economy or jurisdiction that are not controlled by government, including privately owned businesses and not-for-profit organizations.

Of or pertaining to the private sector.

A principle in international law where international boundaries are extended over sea areas in the Arctic towards the North Pole following meridians (lines of longitude). The same principle is used over land in the Antarctic to the South Pole.

(astrophysics, cosmology, astronomy, physics) The known universe; the part of the universe that is not part of the dark sector; the segment of the universe that is explained by the known laws of physics, and whose components (particles) are predicted by it. The portion of the universe that is not dark matter nor dark energy.

The economic sector consisting of non-governmental nonprofits.

(computing) An addressing system of hard drives where the hard drive is addressed by its cylinders, heads, and sectors.

(economics) A model in development economics that explains the growth of a developing economy in terms of a labour transition between the capitalist sector and the subsistence sector.