ghetto vs sector

ghetto

noun
  • An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest. 

  • An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) 

  • An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. 

  • An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race. 

verb
  • To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto. 

adj
  • Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States. 

  • Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude. 

  • Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States. 

  • Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general. 

sector

noun
  • an area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible 

  • section 

  • a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes. 

  • a field of economic activity 

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

  • A toothed gear whose face is the arc of a circle. 

  • part of a circle, extending to the center; circular sector 

  • zone (designated area). 

  • one of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier 

  • an instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge. 

  • An area of a crag, consisting of various routes 

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

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