Question

What do you understand by sect?

Answer 1

A sect is a group of people that has separated from a larger group and has a particular set of religious or political beliefs.

Answer 2

A sect is a term that is used for the subgroup of the political, religious and philosophical belief system that is a usually a larger group and offshoot.

The term is usually used for the classification of the religious separate groups in an organisation that can break away from the larger forms to develop their own sets of principles and rules.