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Question from Ed:
What is the name for the section of a flat ring (annulus)?
Similar to a section on a radar screen, a quadrilateral
but the top and bottom are curved.

Ed,

I don't think it has any special name. While I would write "sector" rather than "section", I would call it an "annular sector" or "sector of an annulus".

Good Hunting!
RD

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