Region vs Sector - What's the difference?
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Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
(historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
section
zone (designated area).
(geometry) part of a circle, extending to the center
(computing) fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium (compare to block)
(military) an area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible
(military) one of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier
(science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes; for instance, ,
(calculation) an instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge
a field of economic activity
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Sector is a synonym of region.
As nouns the difference between region and sector
is that region is any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons while sector is section.region
English
Noun
(wikipedia region) (en noun)- the equatorial regions
- the temperate regions
- the polar regions
- the upper regions of the atmosphere
- the abdominal regions
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English
(wikipedia sector)Noun
(en noun)W
Our banks are out of control, passage=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.}}